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Among the many ASP.NET books out now, very few actually go through and help readers how to create large-scale web applications. There are plenty of reference books available explaining how to use the many ASP.NET controls and c# langauge techniques showing you snippets of code but thats about it. In the job market today, people need to understand how to put together (from start to finish) a usable web application that can be used in the "real-world".
This book (as its previous ASP.NET 2.0 version) explains to its readers how to create from scratch a web application using techniques that you would see in a real-world application.
Of course it is a limited database, but it is something that you can build upon and use many of the techniques in other similar web applications.
The book first starts in explaining the database structure (The Balloon Shop) and hoow 3-tier architecture works in a web application today. The presentaion tier, the business tier and the data tier. All these "tiers" are just objects that you create in ASP.NET and C#. The presentation tier would be your web forms (controls and such), your business tier would be all the code (defined in classes) that will interact with the presentation tier and the data tier will be your database and any remaining functions. This is the real web applications work and the author explains it very well.
VS 2008 and SQL Server 2008 Express is used so you dont have to spend any money on other tools (free from Microsoft) and the author goes through all the database tables while explaing database basics such as tables, keys, SQL statements and stored procedures. A very nice database intro.
The author then goes into detail explaining all the classes (explaining how to create classes and why they are useful) that will be used in the application.
Other real-world issues in developing web applications are discussed like performance, error handling, error pages, administrations issues, interacting with 3rd party components, etc.
After you read this book, you should be well versed in developing a pretty sophisticated ASP.NET 3.5 web application.
I highly recommend this book.
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Posted July 12, 2010
Found this book to be a good guide for developing E-Commerce website for the beginner. Although it covers quite a bit of material including things like credit card transactions and receiving payment using PayPal it certainly not going to make the reader a professional in developing such sites. If you liked a step by step approach this may be the book for you. It does lack the in-depth discussions on the various topics. In all fairness, there are complete books written on the various topics.
What this book does give you is a chance to develop a complete e-commerce website. Giving a good overall understanding of developing such a site. It could be used as a starting point for a more in-depth study in the reader really wants to become proficient at developing such sites.
Do not get this book if you want to learn C# or ASP.net. If you want to see how to set up an e-commerce site using C# and an ASP.net then this is a good book for. I would recommend that you know C# and be familiar with ASP.net before reading this book.
This is an excellent book for learning Microsoft web development; and, when you are finished working through the book, you will have created a working ASP.NET E-Commerce site. How much better can that be? How many books will get you to that point? I know of only two books for ASP.NET (so far) that will do that for you; but, of the two books, this one is much more valuable in terms of the depth of usable knowledge you will gain immediately, as you work through each of the chapters. You will both learn C# and ASP.NET. It would help if you had some C# knowledge already, but the book's approach is to assume you are a novice.
For example, you are going to learn seven main things by using this book:
(1) How to use the Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition (very close to Visual Studio 2008) Integrated Development Environment, also known as IDE.
(2) You will learn the C# 2008 language by application of it in each chapter.
(3) How to create databases, tables and stored procedures using the SQL Server 2008 Express Edition.
(4) ASP.NET 3.5. You will build several actual web pages, learn to use the Master Page, and build a complete, usable e-commerce web site.
(5) Search-engine optimization.
(6) Setup of a payment system, such as PayPal and DataCash integration.
(7) Deployment of the web site.
If you want an excellent road-map to developing an e-commerce web site, this is an excellent book for accomplishing it using C# and ASP.NET. Upon completion of this book, not only will you have built a usable website and have a template for future web development, but you will have also gained excellent developer skills in the C# language and ASP.NET.
You will literally go from "Novice to Professional" by using this book as your guide.
I originally got the ASP.NET E - Commerce in c# 2005 version and I thought that book was amazing. This book pretty much on how to build am asp.net e-commerce site from design to implementation and tells you why it was implemented that way. Some of the chapters here are pretty much the same from the 2005 version and newly added chapters such as URL rewrite. I recommend this book if u want to get experience on how to create a e-commerce website.
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Overview
With the incarnations of ASP.NET 3.5 and SQL Server 2008, programming dynamic datadriven web sites with Microsoft technologies has become easier and much more efficient than ever before. Fewer mouse clicks and fewer lines of code can now enable more powerful features and the tools you need—Visual Web Developer and SQL Server 2008 Express Edition—are free. In Beginning ASP.NET E-Commerce in C#: From Novice to Professional, you’ll learn how to best use the free development tools offered by Microsoft to build an online product catalog. You will gain an intimate understanding of every piece of code you write. This understanding will enable you to build your own powerful and flexible web sites efficiently and rapidly with ASP.NET 3.5.
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Developers wanting to build professional ecommerce sites using .NET technologies.
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Cristian Darie is a software engineer with experience in a wide range of modern technologies. He is the author of numerous books, including his popular ASP.NET C# e-commerce tutorial, his Ajax and PHP tutorial, and hissearch engine optimizationtutorial for PHP developers. Cristian studied distributed application architectures for his Ph.D, and is getting involved with various commercial and research projects. When not planning to buy Google, he enjoys his bit of social life. If you want to say "Hi," you can reach Cristian through his personal website, www.CristianDarie.ro.