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Summary: DON'T BUILD A WEBSITE WITHOUT THIS BOOK !!!
Review: If you want to build the sophisticated and secure E-Commerce web site in ASP and VB, this book is right to you. Many of books conferred about how to build a shopping cart but not the security of the transaction.At first before I buy this book, I want to learn about web security that applied in internet banking or in transaction, so then I start to read several books about SSL, SET, Digital Certificates, PKI, etc. I just find much information about the infrastructures (like an introduction) not the application.At least I find this book and read the index, then I find that all I want to know available in here obviously and completed with the installations (of course it is 600 pages). SSL, Digital Certificates, etc wouldn't conferred to deep/detail, but I think that's no problem, because this book will show you how to actually build the site content and features, I just applied it online. It is like if you can create the animation from Macromedia Flash then not necessary to knowing how Macromedia Flash software created isn't? ^_^.After buy this book, don't forget to download the source code and the explanations of this book. (Only in several KB). You'll find the address in book, where you can download the files.Hei...I just apply the informations of this book to my website...
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Summary: Excellent, everything you need to set up a store on the web.
Review: Reynolds steps you through how to make an online store. If youare thinking about web store internet startup, this book will get youthere. It covers both business and programming aspects of starting an online store. By the time you finish the book you will have a complete store which has SSL encryption for credit card transactions, a customer forum, a Search method for your site, Database management, etc. But it doesn't end there, Reynolds then shows you how to market your site and provide customer service. The book teaches you all the latest web technology like XML and CSS2. It also tells you how to get around common browser bugs in your programming. And like most WROX books, it is clearly explained and doesn't get too technical for the non-programmer. I recommend that you read Beginning ASP 2.0 or 3.0 first, then dive right into this book. The one downside is that the database management system (software for managing databases) required for examples is expensive to buy. And this software is necessary to get all the examples to work. However, someone experienced with another DBMS like Oracle 8, could easily tweak the code and get it to work. END
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Summary: not a good book for a biginer
Review: The book is a good way to combine the Microsoft Technologies, and display how to build an E-Commerce store, however it has a lot of gapses in some chapters like 5,6. It starts out very knowledgable and then jumps to conlusions of the project, without showing the intermidiate steps to get to the solution of the problem. Don't buy this book if you are just starting out, start with begining ASP 3.0.
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Summary: E-Commerce Realised!
Review: The book takes you through the setup of an online store. It's ideal if you're are wanting to open an e-commerce site called Jo's Coffee! I dislike that the functionality of the examples provided hinges on custom components. It has been stated by other reviewers; but, I feel compelled to echo the fact that most Web Site hosts do not let you install custom components. So at least in my case the provided examples are only that and can't be used for anything I'm doing without heavy adaptation. The book requires that you have a copy of SQL Server database which is an expensive program as compared to the more readily accesible Access. It would have been nice if examples were provided for both. The book's focus on the UK is kind of silly. The book has you setting up pricing application in british pounds! The book makes other ridiculous prejiduced British comments such as how hosting your site in the UK is a better way to go. The credit card gateway example provided is also UK bank exclusive. So if you are a Yank like me then you have to be ready to adapt as needed. I would've enjoyed a more detailed section on getting a Merchant ID. This book, like all other e-commerce articles I have read, simply make the statement that you need to have a Merchant ID to accept credit cards online. However, they end it with see your bank or go to these web sites for more details. Be prepared for incredible hassles in regard with this! In the end this book gives you a good idea. It really can only used as stand alone for a few web sites. If you really want to go through with e-commerce then be prepared to buy other Wrox publications like Beginning ASP. With that being said this book was pretty good.
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Summary: Great book for the new and seasoned e-commerce developer
Review: The first time I read this book I found that it quickly put me in a position to develop real world applications. I continue to read through this book and find that each time a new idea or approach to a problem can be extracted an applied to my project at hand. One of the better books I've read on e-commerce in the past 2 years.
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Summary: Most Excellent Book
Review: The question is not whether this is a beg. or pro. book. This book has all the essential components needed to improve the readers programming skills, and gives great information about what SQL Server and Microsoft components to use to create a professional web-site. Give Mathew a pat on the back and a Cuban Cigar.
... And, please don't complain about this book. Surely no one is so naive to think that reading one programming book is going to make one a programmer.
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Summary: Be Careful About Homegrown VB Components
Review: There is a big "gotcha" in this book that most of the other reviews seem to have glossed over. To get some of the functionality, Reynolds has you build custom objects in VB. This can cause major problems when you are trying to find a host for your new web site. The author does point this out in Chapter 12 where he says "Traditionally, ISPs (I think he means hosting services) don't like to put homegrown components on shared servers...." Not only don't they like it, many won't! Since you build these components early on, you'll find that most of the work ends up being an intellectual exercise.
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Summary: A Must book for E commerce site developer
Review: This book has covered almost every aspect of development for a good commercial E-commerce site right from planning,design and fills lot of gap . I sujest one should refer this book before building a site
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Summary: Excellent...but "Beginning" may be misleading
Review: This book help pull things together for me - ASP, VB, SQL7, etc. The author's application design is very robust and real world. He doesn't take shortcuts, such as maintaining state via session variables, which can ease development but hinder scalability. Unfortunately for the author, I suspect he will lose a lot of "Beginners" by Chapter 3. Implementing interfaces is not an intuitive concept for most would-be developers. Perhaps other approaches may have proven more consistent with the book's title.
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Summary: This book is for newbies, too
Review: This book is a must have if ASP is the code of your choice in ecommerce. I am a newbie at programming and knew almost nothing about ASP, SQL, n-tier architechure and COM+ prior to reading this book, but it held my hand through each step so that I could follow along and understand what was happening. I liked the way WROX publishing shows you the code, tells you how it works, and then try it out, explaining each line and method. Best of all, at the end of the book you actually have a very functional website (I believe according to Microsoft specifications) that can be modified and added onto easily. Our business is now up on the web and we are very happy with the way it works. Downloading the source code from WROX is not hard. Although there are a few errors in it they have all been corrected and published in the errata section of the WROX.com website for the book. I actually believe that the author tried out the code and was happy with it before publication. Now for the main draw back. If you want to get the most from this book you need to buy some expensive software, which I purchased and found to be a great investment, namely Visual Studio (for the InterDev and Visual Basic) and SQL Server 2000 on a Windows 2000 operating system. As of the middle of 2002 I couldn't purchase the SQL Server 7.0 (it was upgraded to SQL Server 2000) or MTS (it was integraded into the Windows 2000 operating system) so that I could use my Windows98. But, this doesn't apply if you know someone with the above legacy software and they let you use theirs or if you get it from EBay. Happy programming. Harry
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