Beginning E-Commerce with Visual Basic, ASP, SQL Server 7.0 and MTS (+code) | Date: 06 May 2011, 19:45
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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.
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.
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The design in the Beginning E-Commerce with Visual Basic, ASP, SQL Server 7.0 and MTS book by Matthew Reynolds is a very "correct one".
It is too bad that it didn't make through the WROX acquisition.
Data Store: SQL Server
Business Logic: VB DLL
Presentation Layer: ASP
Now everything is .NET. Granted, the namespace (gotten from C++) construct is an improvement for VB, but not every VB project is 1,000,000+ lines where this feature is helpful within a large programming group.
So, if you agree with me and you don't want to learn every programming language on the planet, then where are good resources for SQL/VB/ASP development?
WROX books are pretty good and some are outstanding. Nevertheless, the above is a masked way of saying many of them are a waste (ASP databases:). OK, maybe not but they do stick all the business logic where it doesn't belong (SQL/ASP).
When you have done as much searching of the web for SQL/VB/ASP and find this post; post in this ASP E-commerce forum and we might get something good going.
Here are some examples:
1) This is a web site where someone adapted the book to a real site.
http://www.questerpress.com/about.asp
2) See some of my posts. I started to post today.
I think that the best answers for software development are an inclusive combination of tools. The one to explore here is SQL/VB/ASP. My background is SQL Server, back to pre-NT. I use to teach for Microsoft (Microsoft University). If you ever took a certified class, one of five other people, probably trained the instructor. Assuming the instructor had the original rigorous training, that group of five would have included me. It was a small community back then.
The technical release of SQL 4.21 I attended in Washington D.C. was a group of 10 people. 2000 people attended the technical release in Los Angeles for SQL 7.
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