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List all products from child categories on uCommerce

One question I’ve seen batted around a lot is how to list all products from the child categories when viewing a parent category. On the uCommerce demo store Avenue Clothing we simply loop through the category and all child categories to output the products: src\uCommerce.RazorStore\App_Code\

Illegal characters in path in MVC view

I initially thought that this was an issue with Umbraco's implementation on MVC but it turns out that if you have an IEnumerable property on your view model then you may get an error similar to the below. I've done a little searching around in the

How to query your uCommerce database with LINQPad

I've been a massive fan of LINQPad for a few years now. I use it as a scratch pad most days; especially when I need to get my head around a snippet of code without booting up Visual Studio. For those of you not familiar with LINQPad, it&

Using ModelStateToTempData in Umbraco

For those of you who have been working with MVC for a while you may have come across the awesome attribute from Jeremy Skinner "ModelStateToTempData" in MVCContrib (http://mvccontrib.codeplex.com/). In short, it stores the ModelState (i.e. errors) in a temporary data store so when you

Prices including tax on uCommerce

Most of our retailers price point their products to include tax i.e. a shirt that costs you £100 would include a proportion of VAT that the retailer would have to pay (at the moment about £16.67). One frustration I've had for a while with uCommerce is

Umbraco powered CheckBoxList or DropdownList nodes in uCommerce admin area

uCommerce is a great e-commerce engine for Umbraco and high on our list of options when evaluating new e-commerce projects at The Site Doctor. One thing that has always bugged me however is the lack of extensibility on the admin backend. This is something I've discussed with Søren

Taking UCommerce emails to the next level and include the order id in the subject, multiple recipients and Google click tracking

One of the things that I've felt has always been a little lacking in uCommerce was their email system, it's a great idea and nicely implemented but it was rather inflexible in earlier version -you couldn't send "other" emails easily etc. Most

Beware! Context.RewritePath does not end the current execution path

We've recently been working on an inherited project that's got some interesting "features", one of which is how they handle URL rewriting. There are a number of HTTPHandlers that can be plugged into your application or ISAPI filters to enable URL rewriting in IIS

Retrieve the customer's last address when logging into uCommerce

Probably one of the most common features of an ecommerce systems is to "retrieve my details" when logging in -after all that's why you create an account with the seller isn't it? Out of the box, uCommerce has XSLT to retrieve the customer'

Using Linq and Extension Methods to chunk large data sets

Ever needed to take a large list and split it into smaller subsets of data for processing? Well this is the Extension Method for you. Tonight we had to split a small dataset (500 items) into even smaller sets of 10 so the provider’s web service wouldn’t timeout.