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

Field experts Cristian Darie and Karli Watson will teach you to build e-commerce websites using ASP.NET technology. The authors walk you comfortably through the processfrom design to deploymentand illustrate a complete e-commerce programming solution. Take a peek at an actual example from the book!

You will learn to make use of third-party shopping-cart and payment facilities (especially suitable for small e-commerce operations). Further into the book, you will learn to supplement your site with greater functionality, eventually crafting a complete online shopping and order processing system.

This book teaches by example and features real-world code. Also included are updates for Visual Studio .NET 2003, and .NET 1.1. Upon reading this book, you will be able to quickly design and run a fully functioning online store. Further, you'll learn techniques to maintain flexibility in your sites design, so it can grow right along with your business.

1 Starting an E-Commerce Site.- 2 Laying Out the Foundations.- 3 Creating the Product Catalog: Part I.- 4 Creating the Product Catalog: Part II.- 5 Searching the Catalog.- 6 Improving Performance.- 7 Receiving Payments Using PayPal.- 8 Catalog Administration.- 9 The Shopping Basket.- 10 Dealing with Customer Orders.- 11 Making Recommendations.- 12 Customer Details.- 13 Order Pipeline.- 14 Implementing the Pipeline.- 15 Credit Card Transactions.- Appendix A Creating Class Libraries and Installing IIS, MSDE, and OSQL.- Installing the IIS 5.x Web Server.- Installing MSDE.- Running Scripts with osql.- Creating Class Libraries.- Appendix B Project Management Considerations.- Developing Software Solutions.- Considering the Theory Behind Project Management.- Picking a Method.- Understanding the E-Commerce Project Cycle.- Maintaining Relationships with Your Customers.

Karli Watson is the technical director of 3form.net, as well as a freelance IT specialist, author, developer, and consultant. For the most part, he indulges in .NET and related technologies and has written numerous books about them. He has extensive knowledge of programming database-driven websites and has authored the titles Beginning ASP .NET 2.0 E-Commerce, Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 E-Commerce, The Programmer's Guide to SQL, Professional C#, Second Edition, and Professional ASP.NET 1.0.