Microsoft .NET E-Commerce Bible [Paperback]

Don Jones (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 076454831X | ISBN-13: 978-0764548314 | Publication Date: August 15, 2001

While Microsoft has introduced such commerce software as BizTalk Server, Host Integration Server, and SQL Server Application Center, there isn't a website or e-commerce business that can function until these technologies work together. The Microsoft .NET E-Commerce Bible details how to use all these products together to run your e-commerce effectively and efficiently.

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From the Back Cover

If Microsoft e-commerce technologies can do it, you can do it too ... In recent years, Microsoft has released a host of e-commerce-related products - Commerce Server, Biztalk Server, Application Center, Visual Basic.NET, and SQL Server 2000, among others. Here, finally, is a book that shows you how to make all of these technologies work together. Packed with authoritative advice on site planning, best practices, and implementation issues, it's an essential road map to scalable, reliable, compelling e-commerce Web sites. Inside, you'll find complete coverage of Microsoft e-commerce technologies
* Save time, money,and aggravation with careful site planning
* Design an attractive look and feel as well as a compelling customer experience
* Implement navigation effects, ad rotators, and cross-browser compatibility
* Make sure a site supports existing business processes and systems
* Determine which Microsoft technologies you need for a site
* Create an efficient tiered architecture
* Plan for necessary reports and other back-office requirements
* Fine-tune the shopping and checkout process and create customer loyalty programs
* Support a company's marketing and fulfillment needs
* Build in systems for site maintenance and new content deployment
* Develop compelling reports to track activity on the site
Bonus CD-ROM 120-day trial version of Microsoft Commerce Server 2000 www.hungryminds.com System Requirements: CPU with a Pentium-compatible 400 MHz or higher processor; 256MB of RAM; 100MB of available hard-disk space. See the "What's on the CD?" appendix for details and complete system requirements.

About the Author

About the Author Don Jones ([e-mail]) is the President of Iridis Consulting, LLC., an independent consulting firm providing training, software development, and systems design for high-end business technologies. Since 1989, Don has specialized in Microsoft technologies, most recently focusing on the .NET Server platforms, and has earned Microsoft's premier MCSE, MCDBA, and MCT certifications. Don has authored nationally recognized technical training courseware and is a frequent speaker at technical conferences across the country. Don lives all across the country, fulfilling a lifelong dream to live and work in an RV while seeing this wonderful country. He travels with his partner and their four ferrets.

Product Details

• Paperback: 725 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (August 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 076454831X
• ISBN-13: 978-0764548314
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,855,875 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Don Jones is the founder of ScriptingAnswers.com and the lead scripting guru at SAPIEN Technologies. He's the author or more than twenty books on information technology, including Managing Windows with VBScript and WMI, Advanced VBScript for Windows Administrators, and Windows PowerShell: TFM. Don has written and spoken extensively about scripting and automation for years, including columns in REDMOND Magazine, MCPMag.com, Microsoft TechNet Magazine, and more, as well as a series of scripting-related Webinars for Microsoft TechNet. Don is a multiple recipient of Microsoft's MVP Award, and one of the industry's strongest advocates for Windows administrative automation.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pulls it all together and doesn't pull punches, October 26, 2001

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Bill Keaning (New York, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft .NET E-Commerce Bible (Paperback)

The author has obviously done the e-commerce thing the hard way and shares plenty of advice to keep you from screwing it up. I like the outright way the author points our weaknesses in Microsoft's products and shows you how to work around them. This is not a product manual - it's a guide for using a half dozen products all together in an e-commerce site. I work at a .com that uses Microsoft products and I wish we'd reas this before we started... we're going back and fixing things now.

4.0 out of 5 stars Not .NET, but not bad., July 11, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Microsoft .NET E-Commerce Bible (Paperback)

I agree with a previous review here - this book doesn't have much .NET in it. I think the ".NET" comes from the .NET server products like Commerce Server, not the .NET application framework. Blame Microsoft for using the same name everywhere, I guess. But this book seems to be written from the author's experience in putting together e-commerce sites using Microsoft's technologies. The back cover didn't promise any .NET developer stuff anyway so I wasn't expecting it I guess. But I found the coverage of Web site design to be helpful and it got us to thinking about some of the designs we'd initially come up with and we made some good changes. So it was helpful in the end. I do wish there were more examples of how to implement stuff like personalization, which I still don't really understand. The book is more high-level and design-stuff than dig-in stuff.

1.0 out of 5 stars Where's the ".Net", October 29, 2001

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"markdreyer" (Chicago, Il USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft .NET E-Commerce Bible (Paperback)

I found the title of this book to be very misleading. First and foremost, this book has nothing to do with the ".Net" platform. At best this book reviews some Microsoft technologies that can be used when creating an e-commerce site (namely, Commerce Server), but misses the whole point of the ".Net" platform (i.e. web services and the like). Additionally, I found the author to be very self-aggrandizing - "I found that..." or "When I do do this I ..." or "I will define ...". This becomes overbearing by chapter 2 - the entire first 300+ pages are about the esoteric nuance of web design - in his opinion. This book is weak in examples and techniques - it is not a ".Net Bible" by any stretch of the immagination.