Lab 2: Building and Implementing a Catalog

In this lab you will learn how to build a product catalog and implement it on your Web site using the development environment of Visual Studio. NET. After completing this lab, you will be able to do the following:

• Create property, product, and category definitions.
• Add new products, product variants, and product categories.
• Categorize products.
• Associate similar products into product families.
• Search the site catalog.
• Apply both category pricing and custom pricing to products.
• Work with multiple variants of a common base product.

Using the new Commerce Server 2002 Base Class Libraries (BCLs), you will also be able to programmatically do the following:

• Enumerate the catalog and display it.
• Browse categories within the catalog.
• Databind Commerce Server data to databinding controls.
• Use the Commerce Server 2002 DataBinding Expression Wizard.
• Manager product variations in code (including two different product display formats).

This section contains:

• Step 1: Create Product Properties
• Step 2: Create Product Definitions
• Step 3: Create New Category Definition
• Step 4: Create a New Base Catalog
• Step 5: Add Category Values to the Category Definition
• Step 6: Add Products to a Catalog
• Step 7: Import a Catalog
• Step 8: Create a Virtual Catalog
• Step 9: Display Products in a Hierarchical Format
• Step 10: Implement Product Drill-down
• Step 11: Implement Product Detail Page

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