Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional

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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: 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.