Microsoft Commerce Server 2000: Design and Implementation Part 3 - Pipelines

Audience

The intended audience for this course includes Professional Web Developers. These developers will have experience creating Web sites by using Active Server Pages (ASP) Visual Basic Scripting Edition or JavaScript data connectivity client-server concepts and technologies (Internet Information services (IIS) Microsoft SQL Server (tm)) and COM+. Suggest knowledge of Web development databases datawarehousing VB COM and e-commerce concepts. This course prepares learners for exam 70-234.

Objective

Upon completion of this course the student will be able to:

• Identify features of a Commerce Server 2000 pipeline.
• Match Commerce Server 2000 pipeline types with their functions.
• Create a new Commerce Server 2000 pipeline.
• Configure a Scriptor component property.
• Add script to a Scriptor component.
• View the Scriptor component code.
• Identify the stages of the Content Selection Pipeline (CSP).
• Create a new Content Selection Pipeline (CSP).
• Identify characteristics of the advertising selection process.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Commerce Server 2000 Pipelines

• Identify features of a Commerce Server 2000 pipeline.
• Match Commerce Server 2000 pipeline types with their functions.
• Create a new Commerce Server 2000 pipeline.
• Insert a new stage into a Commerce Server 2000 pipeline.
• Add a prebuilt component to a Commerce Server 2000 pipeline stage.
• Add a custom built component to a Commerce Server 2000 pipeline stage.
• Configure a Commerce Server 2000 pipeline component.
• Match Product pipeline stages with their descriptions.
• Match the stages of the Plan pipeline with their descriptions.
• Match the stages of the Purchase pipeline with their descriptions.
• Identify considerations for setting pipeline component values.
• Identify the syntax of the RunPipe method for running an Order Processing pipeline.
• Add a component to a Plan pipeline.
• Identify steps to test components of a new Plan pipeline.
• Identify the syntax to run a pipeline component by using the MicroPipe object.
• Create a pipeline component log file.

Unit 2: Creating Pipeline Components

• Configure a Scriptor component property.
• Add script to a Scriptor component.
• View the Scriptor component code.
• Sequence the steps to customize a Scriptor pipeline component.
• Match Compiled Pipeline Component Wizards with their functions.
• Identify the syntax to register the Visual Basic Pipeline Component Wizard.
• Run the Visual Basic Pipeline Component Wizard.
• Match Pipeline Component Type Library interfaces with their descriptions.
• Identify syntax to implement the IPipelineComponent interface.
• Identify syntax to implement the IPipelineComponentAdmin interface.
• Identify the syntax for registering a pipeline component as a Component Object Model (COM) component.
• Sequence the stages to register a pipeline component for stage affinity.

Unit 3: Implementing Advertising Campaigns

• Identify the stages of the Content Selection Pipeline (CSP).
• Create a new Content Selection Pipeline (CSP).
• Identify characteristics of the advertising selection process.
• Identify the syntax to initialize the CacheManager for use with a Content Selection Pipeline (CSP).
• Identify the syntax to initialize an Expression Evaluator Engine (EEE) for a Content Selection Pipeline (CSP).
• Identify the syntax to create a Content Selection Pipeline (CSP) object.
Identify the syntax to run the Content Selection Pipeline (CSP).
• Sequence the steps in using the redirection page with a Content Selection Pipeline (CSP).
• Identify features of Commerce Server 2000 advertising infrastructure.
• Identify syntax for applying discounts by using discount pipeline components.
• Match discount pipeline component fields with their output descriptions.
• Identify syntax to display a discount to users.
• Identify steps to apply a discount to an item in a shopping basket.

Duration

4 Hours

Minimum Requirements

The CDROM version of this course requires:

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
• At least a double speed CDROM drive.
• An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently only the CDROM version supports audio).
The network version of this course requires:
• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).

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