Chapter 6. Using ASP.NET to Display the Simple Catalog

IN THIS CHAPTER

Objectives

  • Learn how the MyGolfGear.NET product catalog is displayed

  • Understand the role the CatalogDS class plays

  • Discover how categories of products and product details are displayed on MyGolfGear.NET

The ability to browse an e-Commerce site's goods and services is one of the most basic requirements for today's business-to-consumer (B2C) Web sites. In this chapter, I will show how we used ADO.NET and ASP.NET to develop the bare bones of the online store for MyGolfGear.NET. In subsequent chapters, we will describe some more advanced features that are common in some of the better B2C e-Commerce sites.

Although most of the functionality we are implementing in this chapter is ...

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