Beginning E-Commerce with Visual Basic, ASP, SQL Server 7.0 and MTS
Product Description
Discusses all the practical steps needed to build an e-commerce site. Reveals how you can build a fully functional e-commerce site, which will support selling over the Internet, by following the development of an example Web site for a small business. Softcover. Amazon.com Review
Beginning E-Commerce offers an excellent demonstration of full-featured e-commerce Web-site construction with the Microsoft suite of development tools. If VB is your language of choice and ASP is your Web scripting selection, this tutorial is a must.
This book has very little general coverage of e-commerce. The entire text is devoted to the step-by-step construction of “Jo’s Coffee,” a fictitious Web storefront that winds up at the end of the book with a sophisticated order-processing pipeline, online discussion groups, XML integration with outside systems, and much more. In the introduction, the book sets a lofty goal: “… to take you gently from knowing nothing about e-commerce, to a point where you’ll be able to put up a Web site that will make money for your business.” This text meets this goal for readers who are familiar with the development tools mentioned in the title.
The book does a great job of providing complete commentary for each stage of the development process. It walks the reader through defining an application object model, implementing it with VB COM components, interfacing with a SQL Server database, and adding a number of sophisticated features. One of the most interesting techniques illustrated in this title is a VB COM component-based order-processing pipeline similar to the type found in Microsoft’s top-of-the-line Site Server product. Using the example in this book, developers could easily construct custom pipelines for every commerce site they build.
If your core competencies lie in Microsoft-based technologies, this book is a wise investment in the future. It offers eye-opening possibilities for creating your own industrial-strength e-commerce sites. –Stephen W. Plain
Topics covered: COM and e-commerce object models, product catalog, shopping basket, checkout, order processing, promotions, certificates, pipeline construction, transaction management, deployment, e-mail integration, discussion groups, XML integration, and marketing tips.
Beginning E-Commerce with Visual Basic, ASP, SQL Server 7.0 and MTS
I have read certain books i’e Noel Jerkes, ASP unleashed which are for itermediteat to advance but they easy, clear to undertsand than this one. I have also seen reviews problem of custom dll’s which abolutely write. Using Stored procedures like Noel’s books make you understand the topic.
Rating: 1 / 5
I own over 20 Wrox books. They are by far the best. This is the best of the best. This is quite simply the best and most useful programming book I’ve ever seen. This is quite likely the best book Wrox has ever published.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is book is a great -reference- book if you are some sort of wizard in developing vb components.
Unfortunetely most of us don’t host our own websites… and ISP don’t usually allow custom dll’s, so I didn’t find this book very helpful.
Rating: 1 / 5
Well my title may be a little misleading, but for a book entitled “BEGINNING E-Commerce”, it is not very good at teaching basic concepts. The author covers many things that a beginner may have a tough time grasping, such as building your own VB objects to connect to things like a database (Why not just keep it simple and do it straight out of ASP?). All the things he discusses could have all been done had he simply gave examples using VB Objects, actually explained them well, then simply used the same components straight out of ASP. If youre a beginner you may be dissapointed.
Rating: 2 / 5
I read a lot of computer books. Most of them are either too theoretical or not hands-on. But I’m so pleased that I have chosen this book. It is very praticle and I wish I had this earlier.
Rating: 5 / 5