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

by Paul Sarknas (Author)
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Pro ASP.NET 2.0 E-Commerce in C# 2005 takes you through the e-commerce web application development cycle, from conception to coding to deployment and maintenance. It will also help you maximize your potential profits, learn what risks are involved, and take the necessary steps to minimize those risks. The book begins by introducing e-commerce systems and lays out the toolset. To help you learn about meeting and overcoming real-world challenges, the book features a case study of a fictional company, Little Italy Vineyards.

As you progress through the book, youll focus on e-commerce requirements, then proceed to model the objects utilizing UML to generate and define the complete architecture for the example application. Once you put it all together, youll address the site coding. In this section, author Paul Sarknas demonstrates how the practical application of modern programming techniques, like web services and Ajax, can have direct impact on your customers user experience and the success of your site.

After design and development are complete, the author focuses on utilizing the best deployment methods for maintaining the application and allowing maximum scalability. By the end of this book, youll have all the skills youll need to begin creating professional quality e-commerce systems from the ground up.

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. Sarknas 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.



Sarknas 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.



Sarknas 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 (December 11, 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 (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #304,617 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 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

By	J. Tehonica (Long Island, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

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

By	Dave Galligher (Boise, ID USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good starting point for layered architecture, March 28, 2007

By	Rohit Paul (Bethesda, MD USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Overall a pretty good book that covers design and implementation concepts that can be used for nearly any type of ASP.NET application. Although I understand why the author chose to exclusively use Stored Procedures to implement database access, I do wish he implemented some functionality that didn't use stored procedures in order to futher demonstrate the use of Microsoft Data Access Application Blocks.

I would absolutely recommend reading ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution (Programmer to Programmer) in addition to this book in order to get a more complete coverage of architecting a multi-layered application.