Beginning ASP. Net E-Commerce with Visual Basic .Net and Visual Studio .Net

This is an exeptionally well written book for the beginning webstore developer with It walks you through a complete design of the side with the end result that you have a basic webstore that you could actually take operational. The only weakness in the credit processing section. It's written for a European credit card gateway. It would be nice if one of the more popular US gateways (e.g. authorize.net) was also included. I also sent a couple of questions to the author and he was responded very quickly ... obviously he's interested in making sure everyone reading the book is successful. 5 stars for that alone.

Along the long road to a graduate degree in computer science I have purchased literally thousands of dollars worth of books, most of which were heavy on theory and light on application. For 99.99% of us theory alone won't put bread on the table. Only a few of the books I have studied actually taught the reader useful, complete, and immediately applicable ("real-world") skills. This book is one of them. One improvement to the content of this book would have been coverage of transaction and asynchronous processing but what I was most impressed with was Cristian and Karli's writing style. They actually take the time to carefully EXPLAIN what they are writing about, something the so called "gurus" should learn how to do! They manage complexity the way it should be managed -- by breaking it down into smaller understandable components of logic, each having a well defined function, and integrated into the overall application forming a scalable and extendable solution.This book should be required reading for the majority of IT authors out there. They could use it as a style guide for how to actually implement useful communication with the reader. I highly recommend this book and look forward to future books written by these authors!BT

I really appreciate the authors' effort on writing this book. I am new to e-commerce programming and this book has shown me how to build an e-commerce storefront from scratch using Visual Studio.NET and SQL Server 2000!! E-commerce programming doesnt look that horrifying after all. I particularly like the three-tier architecture adopted in this book. It shows readers a professional way of building a flexible online storefront. Everything is clearly written and explained. You will also get to learn more about writing SQL Server stored procedures to support the data tier.I would recommend this book to those who have some VB programming background and are desparate for fast solutions with ASP.NET. Note: You can no longer download the code from Wrox's website because this book is now under another publisher, aPress. Therefore you will need to go to the aPress website and download the code from there. By the way I tested all the code and they work fine. Great job! Many thanks to Cristian and Karli!! You guys rock! Write more cool books!!

Well by now most of us know that wrox is no longer with us ...But I am VERY VERY VERY thankful that this book was published before they went under. Just sad that this book will no longer be in publication becasue it is VERY well written and easy to understand. I am an experienced Software Engineer and have read a lot of books (Good & Bad) and this one does exactly what it says. It is useful to BOTH Experienced Developers developing their first e-comm site AND Novice Programmers with a little additional effort looking at MSDN to understand some stuff they don't go into detail about(if you want to know how things really work and be able to customize the solution to your taste/needs)It would be worth twice the cover price in the amount of time it saves in laying out a plan for developing an e-comm site, if you have never done one. This book is a steal and I just hope that Darie & Karli got their money for the book. I also hope another publisher picks up this title and continues it. Better yet, maybe Darie & Karli can get another deal to rewrite the book for another publisher as well as put out an advanced version.A MUST HAVE!!! WOULD NOT EVEN CONSIDER SELLING MY COPY!!!

I've purchased over 20 wrox books over the past 4 years and I've found Beginning ASP.Net E-Commerce to be at the top of my list! The authors methodically lay out the bulding of an e-commerce site from beginning to end. Particulaly, I like the approach of taking the different layers (Presentation, Business, and Data) and separately explaining the code for each layer and then showing how they work together. I've been playing around with ASP.NET and VB.NET off and on for the past year. Your book has been one of the most helpful in terms of building an actual and practical application. I'll be patterning my business and data layers after the concepts in this book. Improvements that could be made: 1) Although the book integrated using PayPal (as a link) for credit card processing, I would have liked to see an example of integrating the credit card processing directly from within the site (i.e. Verisign PayFlow Pro) without having to transfer to another site. Perhaps the P2P Wrox forum for the book will have some examples in the future. 2) The Catalog Administration provided a good start but a more rich interface would be needed for a production system. My review for the second edition of the book: On a scale of 1 to 10, I give it a 9.5! It is definitely on my short list of books that will be retrieved off my bookshelves for some time to come. It contains a lot of the necessary code/logic needed in many other types of web sites, not just e-commerce. Just like your first version of the book, I like the tiered approach to the design and in your explanation of the tiers in each chapter as a new topic of the e-commerce site is exposed. I can see no gaps in your methodology and progression of logic. Even if the reader may know about databases, the database chapter was worthwhile reading. Where needed, you give alternative approaches, as in the "Search the Catalog" chapter. The "Catalog Administration" chapter was very extensive and rich with functionality. The chapter on "Improving Performance" was good, and I would like to see more topics covered in relation to this. The implementation of Paypal covered was great, and other credit card providers were covered like Verisign (Pay Flow Pro),