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Instant Associates Store

GMP Services has released the Instant Associate Store; here is the full press release. Take a look at the Sample Store to see what this product can do, and take a look at the sample screen shots to see how it works. Features include: Very easy setup and maintenance (3 step process to install) Built-in […]

Featured Offers Available in ECS 3.0

You may now set the “offers” parameter to “Featured” in ECS 3.0 AsinSearch requests. Setting “offers” to “Featured” will allow you to retrieve featured merchants’ offers using ECS 3.0. A featured merchant is a vendor with whom Amazon has a special partnership and whose offers are prominently featured on Amazon product detail pages.  Prior to […]

Migrating from ECS 3.0 to 4.0

To help you migrate your Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS) application from ECS 3.0 to ECS 4.0, we have included a Migration Guide in the ECS 4.0 documentation. If you would like to see additional topics covered in the Migration Guide, please let us know!

Alternatives to the ECS Remote Shopping Cart

We recently introduced some new HTML forms that you can use as alternatives to the ECS remote shopping cart. You can read about these new forms in the ECS 4.0 documentation (see ECS Cart Alternatives). If you have questions about how to use these forms, we encourage you to post your questions on the AWS […]

Using ECS 4 with ASP.Net

Courtesy of SitePoint, a two page tutorial — Use Amazon Web Services in ASP.NET . This article introduces the user to the general concept of a web service, covers the AWS license, caching rules, loading the WSDL into Visual Studio (the article uses the 2005 “Express” version, but the code will also work just fine […]

Queue Scratchpad

The AWS Zone now includes a scratchpad for the Amazon Simple Queue Service. You can find it athttp://www.awszone.com/scratchpads/rest/sqs/index.awsYou can use this nifty tool to exercise the queue without writing any code. Here’s what you do: Get a Subscription Id Use the scratchpad to create a queue (“CreateQueue”). Copy the Queue Id from the returned XML. […]