Chapter 4. SportsStore: A Real Application

You've heard about the benefits of the ASP.NET MVC platform, and you've learned some of the theory behind its design. Now it's time to put the framework into action for real and see how those benefits work out in a realistic e-commerce application.

Your application, SportsStore, will follow the classic design metaphors for online shopping: there will be a product catalog that's browsable by category and page index, a cart that visitors may add and remove quantities of products to and from, and a checkout screen onto which visitors may enter shipping details. For logged-in site administrators, you'll offer CRUD (create, read, update, delete) facilities to manage the product catalog. You'll capitalize upon ...

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