Microsoft .NET E-Commerce Bible

By Don Jones

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076454831X
• ISBN13: 9780764548314
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 725 Pages
• Weight: 2.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 1.6" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Not .NET, but not bad.

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.

Pulls it all together and doesn't pull punches

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.