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Summary: Fantastic book ...
Review: I'm a classic ASP developer seeking to both transition into ASP.NET development work, and also, to get my own Commercial Web site up, and running. I'm only on page 90, and I've already learned so much from reading this book. All the code has been working, and the authors have done a tremendous job of explaining exactly what you need to know to get an e-Commerce site going. The book is divided into three sections, and at the end of each section you have a working e-Commerce site, and as you advance through the sections, your Web site becomes more complex. Reading this book is a real pleasure as everything is expressed clearly, and the content is full of valuable information. I hope these two(2) authors will continue their work in writing more books about e-Commerce. This book is so well thought out, and has a real business focus. There is so much to say about this book, but I'll just end by saying this book is "Absolutely" one of the best programming books I have ever read!
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Summary: Top Of My List
Review: I've purchased over 20 wrox books over the past 4 years and I've found Beginning ASP.Net E-Commerce to be at the top of my list! The authors methodically lay out the bulding of an e-commerce site from beginning to end. Particulaly, I like the approach of taking the different layers (Presentation, Business, and Data) and separately explaining the code for each layer and then showing how they work together. I've been playing around with ASP.NET and VB.NET off and on for the past year. Your book has been one of the most helpful in terms of building an actual and practical application. I'll be patterning my business and data layers after the concepts in this book.Improvements that could be made:
1) Although the book integrated using PayPal (as a link) for credit card processing, I would have liked to see an example of integrating the credit card processing directly from within the site (i.e. Verisign PayFlow Pro) without having to transfer to another site. Perhaps the P2P Wrox forum for the book will have some examples in the future. 2) The Catalog Administration provided a good start but a more rich interface would be needed for a production system.
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Summary: Excellent and informative book
Review: I've used this book to construct my first e-commerce website, and I don't think I could have managed without it. The 3 tier design of the sample site is very well organised and easy to adapt to your own requirements. It also makes it simpler for a novice like me to understand how everything works. I found the second part of the book (dealing with the order pipeline and credit card transactions) harder to follow. However, when I contacted the authors about a problem I was having, I received a prompt and friendly reply that soon got me back on track. Thanks, Cristian and Karli!
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Summary: Excellent Guide: Highly Recommended
Review: The book is probably the best I have ever encountered for teaching a new programming lang. while also teaching good programming techniques and methodologies. All of this is done in the context of a truly useful real world example. I have found the code to work perfectly! The authors style works like this: 1) describe what your going to do next, and why, 2) Do the example "Try It Out" (as they say) 3) Go line by line through the code. These steps work very well and all of the new skills build on themselves. I have become very confident through the use of this text. Also, they display a powerful understanding of VS.NET the tool used for development and all of the examples use this tool. Here too I have become way more comfortable. Frankly, this is probably the best guide for semi-starters who are getting into VB.NET but want to see action and learning combined. Way to go!
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Summary: Clear exposition to writing E-Commerce sites
Review: This is a clear, well-written book on building an e-commerce sites. Even though I have already written a few commercial sites in asp.net, mostly using IBuySpy as an example, this book explains all the details that are useful to know to more fully exploit asp.net and Visual Studio.net.
Highly recommended, go for it!
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Summary: Well Done and easy to follow
Review: This is a good book for beginner in E-commerce. Don't think it will explain principles like Interfaces or Inheritance in this book. You must have a relatively good level of understanding VB.NEt and the OOP approach before jump in it. The chapters on the Order Pipeline, (11 and 12) and credit card transaction are very well explain. You will have to complete the application before use it. ( The suppliers project is not in and some others but...) Good book and easy to read
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Summary: Fully functional, basic webstore
Review: This is an exeptionally well written book for the beginning webstore developer with
It walks you through a complete design of the side with the end result that you have a basic webstore that you could actually take operational. The only weakness in the credit processing section. It's written for a European credit card gateway. It would be nice if one of the more popular US gateways (e.g. authorize.net) was also included.
I also sent a couple of questions to the author and he was responded very quickly ... obviously he's interested in making sure everyone reading the book is successful. 5 stars for that alone.
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Summary: More end-to-end ASP.NET, less e-commerce
Review: This is primarily a book about constructing an ASP.NET web site using stored procedures, and less a book about e-commerce. There are a few sections, mostly at the end, which are specific to e-commerce. These include the order processing pipeline chapter and the credit card transactions chapter.
This is not to say the book is bad. It's very well written and the code is described step-by-step in detail. There could have been more emphasis on architecture, and a little more on e-commerce. I would also like to see some emphasis on the sticky legal issues like customer data management, password security, transaction security, and how and when to migrate the data off of the machines on the open Internet and back into safe storage on the Intranet.
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Summary: The best "hands on" asp.net book
Review: This is the best "hands on" book on ASP.Net I've read. It walks you thru a complete ecommerce site, complete with n-tier business objects, stored procedures, etc. The code is very easy reading, with explanations for everything, and the code works, unlike a lot of examples I've seen.
The ecommerce app is written with vb code-behind and slq server.
Buy this book and get started on your ecommerce site.
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Summary: The best Wrox I will ever read
Review: Well by now most of us know that wrox is no longer with us ... But I am VERY VERY VERY thankful that this book was published before they went under. Just sad that this book will no longer be in publication becasue it is VERY well written and easy to understand.
I am an experienced Software Engineer and have read a lot of books (Good & Bad) and this one does exactly what it says. It is useful to BOTH Experienced Developers developing their first e-comm site AND Novice Programmers with a little additional effort looking at MSDN to understand some stuff they don't go into detail about(if you want to know how things really work and be able to customize the solution to your taste/needs) It would be worth twice the cover price in the amount of time it saves in laying out a plan for developing an e-comm site, if you have never done one.
This book is a steal and I just hope that Darie & Karli got their money for the book. I also hope another publisher picks up this title and continues it. Better yet, maybe Darie & Karli can get another deal to rewrite the book for another publisher as well as put out an advanced version. A MUST HAVE!!! WOULD NOT EVEN CONSIDER SELLING MY COPY!!!
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