The combination of commerce and community can be a real powerful duo when enabling integrated customer information and purchasing experiences online.

By enabling a seamless integration between the Mediachase .NET eCommerce Framework and the popular Telligent Community Server, we are providing developers with a smart way to integrate common authentication between the 2 products for registration and authentication.

So when you login into an ECF site/store you will be automatically logged in to the community server. This is defnitely the most flexible approach and allows most of the features in CS to work as designed.

All registration and authentication will be done through ECF even though reversed approach where all registration and authentication is done in the Community Server possible as well.

Pre-Requisites
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For running
- Mediachase ECF 4.0 Distribution
- Community Server 2.1
- ASP.NET 2.0
- SQL Server 2000/2005/Express/MSDE

For Developing
- VS.NET 2005

Steps to Utilize
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Step 1 - Download and Install ECF Distribution

http://www.mediachase.com/Profile/CustomerDownloads.aspx

Step 2 - Download and Install Community Server 2.1

http://communityserver.org/blogs/announcements/archive/2006/08/09/Community-Server-2.1-Now-Available.aspx

Step 3 - Download ECF 4.0 Community Server Integration Module

http://www.mediachase.com/Profile/CustomerDownloads.aspx

Step 4 - Follow the instructions in the Readme.TXT ZIP file that you download.

You can also see the attached images to this post to get a representation at a high level of what this provides.

If you are reading this you will see that Mediachase also uses this for http://www.mediachase.com.

Let us know what you think.