Chapter 9. E-commerce Store

In this chapter we'll implement a working e-commerce store for TheBeerHouse, to enable users to shop for mugs, T-shirts, and other gadgets for beer-fanatics. This again gives us the opportunity to implement a good DAL and BLL that wraps and abstracts the database objects, a rich user interface that heavily leverages some new ASP.NET 2.0 controls such as Wizard, MultiView, and the GridView and DetailsView we've already used in other chapters. We'll also drill down into e-commerce-specific design and coding issues as we implement a persistent shopping cart, and we'll integrate a third-party payment processor service to support real-time credit card transactions. At the end of the chapter you'll have a complete e-commerce module that you can easily adapt to suit your own needs.