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Commerce Server 2000 is Microsoft`s solution for building powerful ecommerce applications on the Web. This product is the successor to the pioneering Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition product, and it enhances its architecture in several key areas, including user profile management and site analysis. Professional Commerce Server 2000 Programming from Wrox Press is an excellent guide to this powerhouse new product.One of Commerce Server`s strengths is its balance between "out of the box" Web store solutions that build easily with wizards and its extensible architecture that allows programmers to extend and customize sites any way they like. This guide steps the reader through the creation of the basic retail store but quickly gets down to the business of customization. Halfway through the book, the reader will have a good feel for setting up user profile and authentication; customizing the store catalog; configuring promotions, tax tables, and shipping rates; and setting up the order processing pipelines to meet an organization`s needs. Plenty of sample codeall of which is downloadable from the publisher`s Web siteis included to illustrate customization techniques.Advanced topics such as content targeting and BizDesk integration are covered in great depth, making this guide a veritable Commerce Server bible you`ll turn to time and time again. The book`s authors address the sticky issue of migrating Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition stores to Commerce Servera Herculean task that programmers will have to think about long and hard before attemptingwith two separate chapters that focus on moving the Membership Directory and stores respectively. Commerce Server 2000 is one of the most powerful ecommerce solution tools available. This wellorganized guide is perhaps the most powerful documentation you will find for the product.Stephen W. PlainTopics covered:User profiling and authentication Catalog customization Business analytics Pipeline implementation Campaigns and content selection Content and promotion targeting Sitelets Thirdparty tax and shipping components BizDesk integration Internationalization Migrating Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition membership directories and stores Installation COM and schema reference.Offers guidance to experienced developers working on large e commerce projects using Microsoft`s Commerce Server 2000. The team of 20 authors explains how to customize the readymade solution sites, design product catalogs, use the business analytics system, construct pipeline components, and integrate sitelets. The second half of the book examines ways to utilize the BizDesk, incorporate third party components, and implement business to business solutions in conjunction with Microsoft`s.Microsoft Commerce Server 2000 provides a COMbased framework and suite of tools that can help you build and manage effective web sites in particular ecommerce solutions on the Windows 2000 platform. It supports catalog management, user profiling, content targeting, and business analytics, as well as providing a componentbased `pipeline` framework to simplify the implementation of linear business logic. This book explores the most important areas of the Commerce Server 2000 product, taking you through from product installation, and configuring and customizing the readymade ecommerce solution sites, to lowlevel application of the component framework, integration with third party components and external systems, and site migration from Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition.
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