Professional Site Server 3.0

• Covers the basic principles and concepts of e-commerce including business-to-business e-commerce
  
• Contains chapters on planning, installing and administering your commerce site
  
• Contains a comprehensive tour of the sample stores
  
• Emphasises Security Issues
  
• Covers Pipelines and Commerce Objects and shows you how to use the Microsoft Wallet
  
• Includes 3 case studies
  

Who is the Book For?

This book is aimed at developers who wish to deploy e-commerce applications on the
Windows NT platform. It assumes no previous knowledge of Site Server, but it would
be useful for you to have some SQL Server knowledge, have a basic understanding of ASP,
and be familiar with IIS and Windows NT.

About the Author
Marco Tabini is an electronic commerce specialist based in Toronto, Canada. He provides custom solution for clients who desire to bring their business online, and writes about electronic commerce and Site Server in various trade publications. He also contributed to the Wrox multi author Site Server Compendium - Professional Site Server 3.0 (Wrox Press, 1999).

Table of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: What is Microsoft Site Server, Commerce Edition'
Chapter 2: System Requirements and Capacity Planning
Chapter 3: Installing and Administering MS Commerce
Server
Chapter 4: Examining the Sample Stores
Chapter 5: Creating a New Commerce Server Store
Chapter 6: The Basic Store
Chapter 7: Security Considerations
Chapter 8: The Database Structure
Chapter 9: Using the Commerce Server Objects
Chapter 10: Using the Order Processing Pipeline
Chapter 11: Technical Analysis of the Sample Store
Chapter 12: Business-to-Business E-Commerce
Chapter 13: The Microsoft Wallet and Buy Now
Chapter 14: Writing Pipeline Components
Chapter 15: Extending the Microsoft Wallet
Chapter 16: Improving Your Store's Performance
Case Study 1: How to Run Commerce Server in Batch Mode Using VB6
Case Study 2: Report Emporium
Case Study 3: The Wine Shop
Appendix A: Microsoft Commerce Server Object Model Quick Reference
Appendix B: Pipeline Components Quick Reference
Appendix C: ISO Country Codes
Appendix D: Active Server Pages Object Model
Appendix E: Introducing the Ad Server
Appendix F: Support and Errata
Index