CS2007 supports M-Commerce?-Collection of common programming errors


  • msdn Can I build a mobile commerce site with CS2007?  I need to track session cookies throughout the pages. 

  • msdn1 Well, I never tried chaning the starter site code from cookies to sessions or query strings. Since we have the code base, I hope we can able to achieve by changing the code .Answering to your second question – yes, we can build a mobile site using the same database and tables. The option is create custom web services on top of runtime API and let your mobile applicaton get or push data using that webservices. Out of box web services are heavy and if we leverage them the site will take lot of time to load as we are trying to fetch lot of information which is not required by mobile UI and that is the reason i am suggesting new custom web services which return minimal information required by the mobile application.Hope i answered your questions.Regards,

    -Ravi Kanth Koppala.


  • msdn2 Thanks for the information.  I setup the CS2007 Starter Site on our webserver.  Is there a way to configure the site so it does not use cookies but use only sessions or just send parameters in the URL?  We already have a live e-commerce site but we want to build a mobile site that uses the same database and tables with the other site. Please advice.  Thank you.

  • msdn3 Well, I never tried chaning the starter site code from cookies to sessions or query strings. Since we have the code base, I hope we can able to achieve by changing the code .Answering to your second question – yes, we can build a mobile site using the same database and tables. The option is create custom web services on top of runtime API and let your mobile applicaton get or push data using that webservices. Out of box web services are heavy and if we leverage them the site will take lot of time to load as we are trying to fetch lot of information which is not required by mobile UI and that is the reason i am suggesting new custom web services which return minimal information required by the mobile application.Hope i answered your questions.Regards,

    -Ravi Kanth Koppala.