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 process—from design to deployment—and illustrate a complete e-commerce programming solution.
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 site’s design, so it can grow right along with your business.
Chapter 1 Starting an E-Commerce Site
Chapter 2 Laying Out the Foundations
Chapter 3 Creating the Product Catalog: Part I
Chapter 4 Creating the Product Catalog: Part II
Chapter 5 Searching the Catalog
Chapter 6 Improving Performance
Chapter 7 Receiving Payments Using PayPal
Chapter 8 Catalog Administration
Chapter 9 The Shopping Basket
Chapter 10 Dealing with Customer Orders
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Cristian Darie
Cristian Darie is the technical lead and project manager for the Better Business Bureau, Romania. In the last 5 years he has designed, implemented, and performance-tuned large-scale data-oriented software applications with Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, and MySQL databases, while working as a consultant for companies in various industries. He is the coauthor of Visual C#: A Guide for VB6 Developers and Beginning ASP.NET E-Commerce, and he is the author of various MCAD and DB2 certification material. In addition, he has contributed as a technical reviewer on numerous database programming titles. Cristian can be contacted through his personal website, http://www.CristianDarie.ro.
Karli Watson
Karli Watson is the technical director of 3form (http://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 on the titles Beginning ASP.NET E-Commerce, Professional C#, Second Edition, and Professional ASP.NET 1.0.