Mel Pama said
First, the book is a great book as far as showing you how to do website design. Each chapter builds on the rest of the book.
However, there have been problems with the url-rewrite section. Ever since I added that to my sample site it has stopped working properly. My *.css file could not be found, picture urls did not work and more recently my full text search.asp also does not work on pages other than page 1 of a category site. It took me over a month of on again off again trying to get it to work for me to find out about how to fix this problem by adding another url rewrite to my web config file. The authors just seem to skip this part of the code. It is not in their code either so I start to wonder if they ever tried their code before being finished with the book.
It has been impossible to contact them about this problem and on Christians web site their are no errata available to view or able to be published. The site on [...] is completely useless and I have never received a response from it or the authors about my questions. This attitude that they have is beyond me.

Jeffrey Berney said
I originally got the ASP.NET E - Commerce in c# 2005 version and I thought that book was amazing. This book pretty much on how to build am asp.net e-commerce site from design to implementation and tells you why it was implemented that way. Some of the chapters here are pretty much the same from the 2005 version and newly added chapters such as URL rewrite. I recommend this book if u want to get experience on how to create a e-commerce website.

.Net learner said


the example app is well written with a provider pattern
and well worth the read.
not sure where people are relating this app as 3.5 technology
unless i am missing something.

Jose Rolando Guay Paz said
A mi me parece interesante ya que conocere un lenguaje que se hace ajeno y con ello poder conocer un poco mas de programacion web. Aunque creo que el lenguaje es complicado no se me hace imposible de comprender. Me parece que es muy interesante.

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Matthew H. Sawyer said
I bought the previous edition of this book, which targeted Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005, so I was drawn to get the latest edition, which targets Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008.

Christian Darie and Karli Watson do a phenomenal job in this edition (as well as the previous edition). They present both the theoretical aspects of e-commerce as well as the practical application. Everything is offered as an exercise, so you're not just getting a lecture--you get to put that theory into practice.

The book is broken down into logical steps, with each chapter building more and more onto the site. Very early on, you get to build a lot, so if you're looking to show someone a prototype site, you don't have to digest the entire book before you get started. Darie and Watson do a great job of letting you start playing right away.

Darie and Watson use generic code for data access, rather than SQL Server-specific code, so if you're an Oracle or mySQL fan, you can use them.

For those in computer science, Darie and Watson put good emphasis on writing modular, cohesive code and also adhere to good coding standards as well as code commenting. The end product is robust, self-documenting, easy-to-follow code. You'll be up and running in no time!