Chapter 34. Building an E-Commerce Application
The problem with most code samples in books is that they are way too simple. When building a full application, the world is often much more complex than the simple world that the book describes. In this chapter, we build a complete ASP.NET application from start to finish. We build an entire online store with the ASP.NET Framework. This chapter has several goals. The first is to discuss the issues that I encountered while building the application. Hard decisions had to be faced. Trade-offs were made. Second, this book covers a lot of material. The ASP.NET 2.0 Framework includes an overwhelming number of new features (a fact which is both cool and scary). This chapter draws together many of the new ASP.NET 2.0 technologies discussed separately in previous chapters and shows you how you can apply these technologies in the context of a real-world application. Finally, an important goal of this chapter is to provide you with a functioning application that you can use as a starting point for your projects. All the code for the e-commerce application is included on the CD that accompanies this book in both a Visual Basic .NET and C# version. If you need to build an e-commerce application, you can take advantage of this code to save yourself a significant amount of time. |
