Content Selection Framework

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11/12/2009

The Content Selection Framework (CSF) is a pipeline-based system that determines the content to be delivered for advertising and discount campaigns. CSF allows multiple pieces of content to be retrieved as a recordset with only one call, resulting in significant timesaving.

The CSF architecture supports an open scoring system that enables site developers to change the algorithm used to determine which piece of content is delivered. In addition, debugging code can be used to monitor events that occur during the scoring process.

The following figure shows the components of the Content Selection Framework.

A figure that shows the components of the Content Selection Framework.

The following table lists key Commerce Server 2002 Help topics to help you learn more about Content Selection Framework.

To learn about	See
Concepts	Content Selection Framework Concepts
Programming	Targeting Samples Example Code Targeting Objects Order Processing Samples ASP.NET-Based Advertising Sitelet Extending the Content Selection Framework
Programming references	Microsoft.CommerceServer.Runtime.Targeting Microsoft.CommerceServer.Interop.Targeting Targeting Objects Expression XML Structures
Security for campaigns	Securing the Campaign Database Business Desk Security
Creating campaigns	Closing the Loop with Commerce Server Systems Business-to-Consumer Tutorial Creating a Marketing Campaign Creating an Ad Creating a Discount Discount Examples

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