Real-world strategies and practical advice for building Web-based commerce applications with Microsoft tools.

Whether your target customer is an individual consumer or another business providing your product or service over the Internet can give your organization unprecedented availability and reach. And with MICROSOFT COMMERCE SOLUTIONS you'll learn how to achieve these Net gains by planning and deploying an electronic commerce system built with Microsoft technologies. Based on the real-world experiences of a Microsoft Solutions Provider Partner this pragmatic solutions-driven guide focuses on matching business requirements with technological capabilities offering ready examples and proven expertise to guide you as you build your own commerce applications for the Web. Coverage includes:

• Understanding the unique business and technology challenges of doing business on the Web
• Establishing a robust scalable and secure e-commerce infrastructure
• Building a Web storefront using Microsoft Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition and related services in Microsoft Windows NT®/2000
• Creating and automating custom server-side components that exploit Microsoft Transaction Server and Microsoft's COM/DCOM architecture
• Developing an effective user interface with current and emerging Internet standards such as HTML Cascading Style Sheets DHTML client side scripts and XML
• Balancing design considerations such as browser compatibility with business objectives
• Integrating workflow and incorporating streaming multimedia

An electronic version of this book is available on the companion CD.