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Dewey Decimal Number: 005 EAN: 9781861004642 Edition: 2000 ISBN: 1861004648 Label: WROX Press Ltd Manufacturer: WROX Press Ltd Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 800 Publication Date: May 01, 2001 Publisher: WROX Press Ltd Studio: WROX Press Ltd Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Microsoft's Commerce Server 2000 replaces Site Server 3.0. As Professional Commerce Server 2000 Programming points out, CS2K is really a collection of applications (including the new BizDesk, IIS, SQL Server, Active Directory etc), templates, scripts, MMC Snap-Ins (COM objects) and other bits and pieces. It shows different faces to managers, developers and end users. By nature it's designed to be extensible so its edges are fuzzy. In theory, CS2K can be used to deploy a working e-commerce site and all necessary back-end support straight out of the box. In practice you usually have to customise various parts of the product for each site deployed. CS2K trades ease of use for massive internal complexity. To customise it effectively you have to understand its architecture and know which files support which features using what formats. Professional Commerce Server 2000 Programming does this by taking a functional approach. It examines Profiling and Authentication, the Product Catalogue System, Pipelining, Business Analytics and so on, as if they were separate products (which, of course, some of them are). Professional Commerce Server 2000 Programming consumes more paper explaining where features are, what they do and how to access them than actually programming anything. It also fails to tell a story, reading instead as a collection of somewhat unappetising recipes, albeit recipes for success. If you've bought CS2K you'll make faster progress if you have this book by your side--just don't expect to particularly enjoy the process. --Steve Patient Average Rating:
 Rating: - Good but could be better...This is undoubtedly the best CS2K reference currently available. Developers will love it because it has numerous code examples and fully explores the CS2K objects. However, most of the examples are culled straight from the retail site and sitelets that ship with CS2K so from that aspect it is disappointing; these sites have received almost widespread criticism on the Commerce Server newsgroups for being hard to customise and for a chronic mix of HTML and ASP code (as a test, try giving them to your HTML designer to customize!). A more advanced and flexible example site, the flagship MS B2C Reference Architecture based on XML and XSLT isn't even mentioned which is a big disappointment. A criticism which I would level at a lot of Wrox books is that this focuses on the intricacies of "programming" without stepping back to view overall architecture and the bigger development picture.  Try searching the Internet for "Professional Commerce Server 2000 (Programmer to Programmer)" or Ebay for "Professional Commerce Server 2000 (Programmer to Programmer)". You might also be interested in the following great products:
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