Just posted to the AspDotNetStorefront Forums is an announcement for the much anticipated Version 9 of their leading eCommerce Platform.  Those of us in the AspDotNetStorefront community have been anticipating this release for quite some time, and finally this anticipation is about to come to an end!

Some of the features we are looking forward to working with:

Master Page Support (Yes, Finally!)

ASP.NET developers around the world are used to working with this built in theming/skinning model.  AspDotNetStorefront has long had their own model for skinning your eCommerce store, one which we have become quite familiar with and somewhat sad to see go.

AspDotNetStorefront has also allowed some of their great skinning features to be baked into the Master Page model which should make things really powerful.

Mobile Support

There is growing support for mobile commerce (mCommerce) as Smartphone proliferation continues to grow.  This first release of Version 9 is going to allow your customers to browse your store catalogue, while version 9.1 will allow customers to purchase product easily.

ERPS Provider Model

Extending WSI is probably the biggest new feature, at least in our opinion, that is coming with this new release.  ERPS is going to allow near real-time product data and order synchronization.  We’ve been building integration frameworks for clients using WSI, but are really looking forward to sinking our teeth into this new provider model and seeing what can be done.

Advanced URL Rewriting

For companies looking to make the move to the powerful AspDotNetStorefront platform and have been previously worried about existing URL structure and search engine optimization (SEO), you can now stop!  This new improvement in URL Rewriting will surely help replicate existing URL structure for your already ranked URLs. 

As Rob has kindly stated in his forum post, there will be much more announcements in the coming week and we’ll do our best here to make sure we spread the good word!