Pro ASP.NET 2.0 E-Commerce in C# 2005 (Expert's Voice in .NET) [Paperback]

Paul Sarknas (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 12, 2006 | ISBN-10: 1590597249 | ISBN-13: 978-1590597248 | Edition: 1

ASP.NET 2.0 has seen significant market-share increases over the six months since its launch. It has rapidly established itself as one of the most powerful and popular technologies for creating web-applications, as demonstrated by the success of other Apress books in this area (Pro ASP.NET 2.0, 1-59059-496-7, and Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 E-Commerce, 1-59059-468-1). E-Commerce is an important area of commercial application development, and one that can only grow in popularity as the .NET 2.0 technology matures. Apress is the market leader in this area, offering a wide range of successful books for web application developers.

This book compliments our Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 E-Commerce book, to provide professional developers with the skills they need to create high-quality bespoke e-commerce systems to their customer’s requirements. The book assumes no prior knowledge of e-commerce, although it does assume a working familiarity with ASP.NET 2.0. At the current time, there are no other books available for developers that address this issue on the .NET 2.0 Platform.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Paul Sarknas currently serves as the president of his own consulting company, Sarknasoft Solutions, which provides enterprise solutions to a wide array of companies that utilize the .NET platform. He specializes in C#, ASP.NET, and SQL Server. He works intimately with all aspects of software including planning, gathering, designing, architecting, developing, testing, and deploying.

Paul has worked with Microsoft technologies for over 8 years and has used .NET since its early conception. Along with authoring and technical reviewing for Apress, Sarknas has also co-authored for Wrox Press.

Paul may be contacted via his consulting company’s website www.sarknasoft.com, or his personal site www.paulsarknas.com. He welcomes questions and feedback of any kind.

Product Details

• Paperback: 640 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (December 12, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590597249
• ISBN-13: 978-1590597248
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #834,610 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The definitive resource for .NET 2.0/C# E-commerce development, January 11, 2007

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J. Tehonica (Long Island, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pro ASP.NET 2.0 E-Commerce in C# 2005 (Expert's Voice in .NET) (Paperback)

If you're looking for the most complete and current reference on building E-commerce applications using .NET 2.0 and C#, this is THE book for you. The author takes you step-by-step through the entire lifecycle of an E-commerce application, from planning and architecture to development, deployment and maintenance. Every step along the way is fully-documented in code (C# and SQL), along with multitudes of helpful Visual Studio 2005 screenshots.

Here's a quick glance at what the book covers (in order):
1. Requirements gathering
2. Business strategies
3. Object modeling (UML, Use Cases, Class Diagrams)
4. Database design (SQL Server 2005)
5. Using VS2005
6. N-Tier architecture
7. Creating the common objects
8. The Data Access layer
9. The Business Logic layer
10. The Presentation layer
11. Developing the product catalog
12. Building the shopping cart
13. Integration with PayPal
14. The checkout process
15. Payment processing
16. Creating the administration system
17. Managing user accounts
18. Managing orders and order fulfillment
19. Deployment
20. Promotion
21. Maintenance

As a lead C# developer, the core of the book has provided extreme value to me. The author takes you step-by-step through the complete N-Tier architecture (Common objects, Data Access layer, Business Layer, Presentation Layer), providing all the code and knowledge required to architect and build a professional .NET 2.0/C# E-commerce application from scratch. This book is on my desk as we speak; it's in constant use as a reference when I'm architecting and developing new applications. There's all the necessary background and explanations available to completely understand each step of the process, along with ALL the code to develop each step in a professionally-architected application. If you're a C# application developer, get this book. If you want to learn more about any aspect of professional .NET E-commerce systems, get this book.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good concept, but flawed in execution, June 1, 2008

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James C. Nindel-Edwards "Jim Nindel-Edwards" (Redmond, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pro ASP.NET 2.0 E-Commerce in C# 2005 (Expert's Voice in .NET) (Paperback)

Picked up this book and was rather excited to build a function, sample, website that I could use as a baseline e-commerce site for practical use and as a demonstration site. While Paul Sarknas's book demonstrates good design concepts, the document is fundamentally flawed in execution. The code in the book is buggy, and in fact does not match the code that can be downloaded (for free) from Apress. I've spent more time debugging the code that I have reading the book. To add to the problems getting this web site running the code in the book, evening including the downloaded code, is incomplete. One must write a couple of SQL stored procedures from scratch without any clear clue as to what they are supposed to do.

As a side note here, don't deploy this code in a production environment without some significant code hardening. There is virtually no input validation and as written is vulnerable to cross site scripting (XXS) attacks.

Overall I appreciate the attempt here, but recommend that you wait for version 1.1 (perhaps an update for VS 2008?) before buying this book. Simply stated this book is not for beginners and will not result in an operable web site in its current form.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical book that gives working, real life examples, February 3, 2007

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Dave Galligher (Boise, ID USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pro ASP.NET 2.0 E-Commerce in C# 2005 (Expert's Voice in .NET) (Paperback)

Let's face it, if you are a computer programmer, you have a 'few' books in your development library that stand out as some of your best. Get ready, if you are into ASP.NET E-Commerce websites with some of the latest technologies, this book will be promoted to your desktop and not to some hidden corner on your bookshelf.

Mr. Sarknas has written a book that other authors can only strive for. It is fairly short, 616 pages, with code samples and practical start to finish examples of creating an N-Tiered website capable of hosting a multitude of users. (I loved the use of Microsoft Data Access Application Blocks for the data access layer).

Now with all that said, it's editing has not been perfect, it got a little 'choppy' around the Business Logic layer of the book with it's code examples, therefore, by all means my strong recommendation is to download the book source code from Apress, you won't be dissatisfied once you reference the Completed Code sub-directory to figure out where some of it went wrong and why your project won't compile with the F6 key.

Also, note, 'Pro' is in the title for the reason. You really need a firm grasp of the object-oriented principles and multi-tiered architectures to take advantage of the information herein.

Overall, an excellent adventure in programming. I strongly recommend purchasing if you are serious about developing websites for you, a client, or your current company. It will save you many hours of frustration.