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Summary: A great book for a Programmer
Review: This is one of the most helpful books I have on my shelf. I am new to the e-commerce field and I have been recently working with Microsoft Commerce Server. I needed some specialized help on all the topics, rather than an overview I got with Special Edition using Commerce Server book. This book gave me all the weapons I needed to fill my Armour.While developing whenever I get stuck on any topic I just refer to this book for that topic. For example I wanted to know how to develop a Coupon system for an e-commerce site. I referred to several books, all of them just gave an overview of the Campaigns module, which was useless for me as I already know what a Campaign module is. This book went into a lot of detail of how to implement a Coupon or how to create ads.
Other great thing I like about this book, is that it covers everything about Commerce Server, from Catalogs, to BizDesk, DataWarehousing, even Migration. Every topic in this book covers a great detail on what is important to know from a programmer's standpoint, rather than from a marketing/sales person's standpoint. To summarize, if you want a power point presentation of Commerce Server, buy any other book. If you want to know the design and details of programming using Commerce Server, this is the book you should buy.
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Summary: Why?
Review: wasted time trying to get the example site "fourthcoffee" to work...., sigh...
Vague explanation.....
I guess you got to have this book since it's the only(?) book available on the topic.
I'm moving faster with trying out Retail2002 solution site with Wrox 'Professional Commerce Server 2000" book.
Feeling like giving it a one star, but that wouldn't be fair since I haven't look through the whole book...
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