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A lightweight shopping cartweb application in ASP.NETMVC 5. (/a-lightweight-shopping-cart-web-application-in-asp-net-mvc-5/)Recently I decided to build a lightweight shopping cart web app in
ASP.NET MVC 5 so that it can be used by local businesses to take ordersonline.
The app takes orders online and sends out an email to the shops owner.
The email contains all of the order information and the business owner
can charge it using their in store credit card management system.
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It is very light weight, responsive, secure, and open source and it is built
on top of some really great technologies, all of which are open source as
well.
The source code can be found on GitHub here
https://github.com/lbacaj/OpenOrderFramework
.
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The problem.I have a lot of family and friends in the restaurant industry and others
that own small businesses and they are all facing the same type of
dilemma:
How to take advantage of the internet and the explosive growth of mobile
apps to expand their business.
They want to allow their customers to place an order online. They want
to charge it themselves and ship or deliver the items themselves. They
don’t want any fancy system, a CMS, or anything with too much
complexity and to be frank they can’t afford to maintain any of that.
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They want simplicity. Once the app is deployed and running they canmaintain it with ease. I set out to build an extremely lightweight
framework that I could reuse across all of these different small
businesses and then I decided to give it away and open source it.
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Most of these small businesses have static websites that show exactly
what they are selling but have no way of actually selling anything online
without adding complexity or cost.
Don’t get me wrong apps like seamless and grub hub are great. They
allow restaurants to sell online and have wide reach but they also charge
restaurants anywhere between 10% to 20% of the order price. Not to
mention other types of shops don’t even have services like these
available to them.
By providing a fully finished secure web app, that just requires some
configuration and deployment to your favorite hosting site, this
framework aims to give the power back to the local shop owners.
Why build another shopping cart?
While there are many great shopping carts out there, done in any
programming language used to build web applications, very few of them
solve this problem in a simple easy to maintain secure manner.
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Most of these existing carts are bloated with lots of features which can
really mean lots of complexity. Take for example nopCommerce(http://www.nopcommerce.com/), it took me longer to setup items and
configure a shop in there then it took me to write my own framework
that I could reuse.
Don’t get me wrong features are nice but for the local shops and small
business owner I think just a clean way to take orders on their website is
more than enough.
Now for my favorite part.
The app uses a lot of exciting technologies that make development
extremely easy and fast. (I build this on the side after work and in less
than two weeks from start to its current state.)
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The Technology Stack.ASP.NET MVC 5 and .NET 4.5 at its core written in C#. I took advantage
of some of the asynchronous programming features of .NET 4.5, I
would like to stress some because I have more work to do on this one.
The app is extremely fast and very responsive and in all honesty was a
dream to write because these technologies are so nice to work with.
HTML 5 – Front end development is extremely easy with a framework
like bootstrap. I simply took a free open source theme from
http://bootswatch.com (http://bootswatch.com) and had a beautiful
responsive UI that works great on mobile and desktop within a few
minutes.
Entity Framework 6 code first migration for all of the database work.
This makes it extremely fast and easy to deploy and working with
Entity 6 is so much fun. Allows for easy asynchronous write backs and
saves to the database without having to worry about writing any SQL.
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(On a side note I once told a colleague of mine back at SunGard that I
hated writing SQL because it was so 1960-ish, I didn’t mean that I dont
really thik SQL is that bad.)
SQL Server Express database, although entity makes it easy to use any
database behind this.
Identity 2.0 for the security aspects, Microsoft has some really great
template to get you up and running with a super secure site within an
hour. This allows for a great authentication and authorization system
that supports external logins from Google and Facebook and easily
allows for roles.
Mailgun for the emailing system and they have a great free 1000 email
program that these small businesses will generally never go over.
Windows Azure for hosting but in reality any ASP.NET hosting
provider will do.
D3.js for some analytics and charting so shop owners can track how
their online business is doing. I should note that this isn’t fully
implemented as I was simply learning D3 while doing this. More will
be done on this one in the future for sure as D3 is one of the best UI
technologies I have come across.
There are also lots of other technologies such as
Visual Studio
TFS Online
Github
jQuery
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Oh and I would really like to shout out AppVeyor
(http://www.appveyor.com/) they are extremely easy to use all in one
continuous integration system that automatically builds and tests your
app right off of github. It is truly a joy to work with and don’t just take
my word for it go see what one of my favoret developers has to say
about it, Hanselman's Blog(http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AppVeyorAGoodContinuousIntegratio
Finally the app is loosely based off the ASP.NET MVC 3 Music Store from
Microsoft, MVC Music Store (http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/mvc-
music-store), but unlike that app this is much more full featured and
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23 Comments 1
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Anton Bacaj •
Looks great
microwang •
()
R ITTEN BY
Louie Bacaj ()
ouie Bacaj is a Senior Software Engineer
with an M.S. in computer science;
experienced scaling multi-million dollar
software projects to several tier 1 financial
institutions.
ew York City
Published onune 20, 2014
S PR EAD TH E WOR D
suitable for the real world. That app is a great way to learn how to build a
shopping cart though and my thanks’ goes to the developer, Jon
Galloway.
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HI,
Where should I go to download this nice shopping cart?
Thanks.
Danial
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Johan Castro Alfaro •
Hi, is there any tutorial or something like that I can follow to edit this app and customize it the
way I want. I do not have experience in this area and I have to do an university project. Thanks.
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Rohan Thakur •
Hi, Nice article, but items according to quantity is missing in this shopping cart. Thanks sir
publishing for this website which helps us alot.
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Sadie •
When I run Update-Database from the package manager in VS 2015 U2, I am getting an error:
"No DbContext was found. Ensure that you're using the correct assembly and that the type isneither abstract nor generic." Any thoughts on what I need to do to to fix this or what tutorial I
should dig into to figure it out?
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Sadie •
There were two issues: I only had SQL Server installed, not SQL Server Express. Once I
got the SQL Server Express 2014 installed I got an error "to upgrade the project database
to use latest SQL Server Express LocalDB". This issue was solved by going in and
changing the connection string to connect to SQL Server Express 2014 rather then SQL
Server Express 2012. It is now up and running!
Rad Ha •
When i try to open any form in y our application, e.g. Register or Login, I get an exception
related to the cryptographic operation for Antiforgerytoken. The error is "the specified key is not
a valid size for this algorithm Antiforgery MVC". Any ideas on how to solve this?
Exception Details: System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: Error occurred
during a cryptographic operation.
Source Error:
Line 8: @using (Html.BeginForm("Register", "Account", FormMethod.Post, new { @class =
"form-horizontal", role = "form" }))
Line 9: {
Line 10: @Html.AntiForgeryToken()
Line 11: <h4>Create a new account.</h4>
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Nina Clarke •
Thanks for this, I've been asked to put together a simple shop site so this has saved me a fair bit
of leg work. I've got it using an up to date SQL Express DB and am just updating some of the
templates to use bootstraps row/columns features and give it a more traditional shop look, but
otherwise is exactly what I need.
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Dev Saini •
First of all, I want to thanks for sharing this good article for shopping cart. I had used it in my
project & all are working fine. But their is one issue while loading the project. It takes a very
long time to load the project. I think it may be due to some thing used Team Foundation Server
Version Control message.
The solution you are opening is bound to source control on the following team foundation
server.................
Have any idea to speed up this project?
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Nikhil •
Delete the .suo file that gets created.
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Dhouha Babay •
Are there any tutorial for implementation ?
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Alok •
Error come when i open the project
TF30063: You are not authorized to access https://louiebacaj.visualstudi....
The active solution has been temporarily disconnected from source control because the server is
unavailable. To attempt to reconnect to source control, close and then re-open the solution when
the server is available. If you want to connect this solution to another server, use the Change
Source Control dialog.
The mappings for the solution could not be found.
The active solution has been temporarily disconnected from source control because the server isunavailable. To attempt to reconnect to source control, close and then re-open the solution when
the server is available. If you want to connect this solution to another server, use the Change
Source Control dialog.
The mappings for the solution could not be found.
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Anand Khobragade •
very nice job!!
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Trai Tháng Tư •
I don't see the update, and delete functions cart .
- I want to edit quantity textbox, then i click update cart button. My Cart will be update
- However, I hope then i click delete cart button. My cart will be delete
I really appreciate your help.
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Colin Lim •
Thanks for sharing and is looking forward for the tutorial.
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Bill •
Just stumbled across this little gem. I've been mulling shopping carts for some weeks now - and
I found the following:
1) So much bloat it's not even funny
2) Not easily integrated with existing MVC 5 sites
3) Costly
4) Maintenance nightmare
I have programmed carts in other languages and was looking for my first - I think taking some
ideas from your code I can have my cart done, my way, the weekend. Thanks for sharing and
for sharing the code.
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Han Siong Jie •
Thank you sir! This web app really helps a lot for my college final year project. Looking forward
on your upcoming guide.
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Fredy •
Thank you for sharing!
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Luljan Bacaj • Mod
ou're welcome.
I plan on making some changes soon so look out for that. I have been working on a
guide on getting started with it as well because it was put together pretty quickly.
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Fredy •
Great! A tutorial on the way? Good luck and Thank you again!
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Mahi •
How to download?
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Lets "Marry Up" Angular to .NET
• •
Avat — Great argument and deserves
some serious consideration. Also thank y ou for
not just throwing the article together into a …
Software Engineers should all learn
JavaScript.
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Avat — I am going to refute your
whole argument here. Jav aScript is a language
for browsers and web applications. If you are …
ASP.NET MVC and Google Street View /
Static Maps API's.• •
Avat — Nice!
Perseverance and Burning out
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Avat — Good point, well made.
CODING.FITNESS
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Fredy •
here https://github.com/lbacaj/Open...
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Greg Macbean •
Just downloaded I am looking forward to checking it out.
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