I've been using 'Beginning ASP.net 2.0' to build a non e-commerce related database driven site, and have found the book extremely helpful.

I've now been asked to build an e-commerce solution for another client. I'm confident that I can build the shopping cart following the guidance and examples from the book. And I've found a suitable payment gateway which looks like it will be fairly straight forward to integrate. However, the majority of users will be anonymous users, so I was hoping to not need a membership system. Will the shopping cart class work exclusively of the user profile, or would I still require profiles enabled with the cart property set to allow anonymous users?

Hi,

As the book notes, the Cart is part of the profile and is enabled for anonymous users so each cart is associated with a sessionId rather than an actual user profile, but yes, you'll still need to enable profiles to use the code as we have or else you'll need to take the cart of the profile and write your own code to associate it to a unique sessionid. But why rewrite something if its already written?

Hope that helps.

Dan



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Thanks Dan for the Clarification. Great Help.