This unique book gives experienced Visual Basic developers all the information they need in order to develop sophisticated e-commerce solutions using Microsoft technologies. Readers learn how to build a online store, complete with shopping carts, order status elements, security, and other features, using Visual Basic, SQL Server, Visual InterDev, and Active Server Pages. This is a nuts-and-bolts book, not an executive overview. Author Noel Jerke is a member of Microsoft's Commerce Partner Advisory Council and an author of several Visual Basic books. |
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 Best E-Commerce book.Nov 25, 2005
I just love this book. Few years back I got this book when I was working as FoxPro programmer creating only simple forms and saving data into FoxPro tables. Once I got this book, it changed my life, and I started moving away from windows application after four years of programming and started learning more about web.
I created few e-commerce sites that year, and now I work as senior application developer for #1 web development company (Mercury Web Solutions) in Albany NY where I do mostly ASP.NET (C#) development and create Content Management System (CMS).
 BEst book on E-Commerce ASP & SQL ServerJul 24, 2004
I think Noel did a good job writing this book. The code is well laid out. Code is reusable, and above all it doesnt tie you lot into registering DLLs. The only minus is for not having the full code on the CD which is mentioned in the book.
Over all its a good reference for beginners to mid level programmers.
The most useful book I've ever boughtApr 08, 2003
This book bring me from Intermediate level into advanced level.
It shows you all real useful examples by utilizing ASP, VB, Db design, and Stored Procedures calls. It's kind of learning how real-world sophisticated shoppong sites(like amazon.com) are created. I am very happy with the book. If you want to become a professional web developer, or learn how to design a data-driven web site, the book is what you want.I recommend that the book is for Intermediate level who has some experiences in VB, SQL Server.
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The Best Book I have ever seen on e-commerceMar 01, 2002
Although title says developer's guide but it makes a reader from novice to developer. Before that e-commerce was complicated,difficult even reading other books makes you confuse more about the subject but after reading this whole concept becomes clear. In my opinion Only prerequisite for reading this book is some databases experiance, it will accelarate if reader have experiance in Access, Sql server. The 99 percent Use of stored procedure is one of the greatest thing by Noel. I have built my web site base on concept and examples given in this book. Though there might be some minor errors but I think they make you learn and eventualy they make you master the vb script, stored procedure and concept.
I congrulate Noel and request him to upgrade this book to Asp.net and vb.net as well as other of his book named e-commerce developer's guide to building community tools. Thanks Noel
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 Too Many ErrorsApr 08, 2001
I agree with many reviewers of this book that there are simply too many errors. The book is divided into two parts. The first part is devoted to the development of a website. The second part is devoted to the management of a website. It is in the second part of this book that one would find a majority of the errors. Most of the errors I found are simple typos, such as on page 413 the author forgot to close an input tag. There are some many of these types of errors that I grew accustomed to finding them whenever I tested the codes. Some errors I found are logical errors. They consumed a lot of my time whenever I tried to fix them. Take for example; on page 466 the author did not include codes to clear several option variables. Thus, each time a new loop was performed, the option variables still contained old values from the previous loop. This produced very unexpected results. Once I added my own codes to clear the option variables before a new loop, the problem was solved. It became clear to me that the author had not tested the codes because if he had, he would have discovered the same errors. Use this book as a learning tool. But proceed with caution as it is plagued with many errors.
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