(Note: This article does not go into the use of LINQ, but instead describes one possible way to handle the Data Context in an AspDotNetStorefront installation.)

Working with AspDotNetStorefront data can be a bit cumbersome for major updates to business data. The occasional update via ADO.NET works fine for trivial to smaller customizations, but larger customizations that can benefit from a data access layer will become much more straightforward with the use of Microsoft’s LINQ Framework.

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Every e-commerce business is unique and AspDotNetStorefront’s built in reports often fall short of the reporting you need.

In this article we’ll show you how to build your own custom reports in using SQL queries in AspDotNetStorefront.

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In an earlier post, Ryan posted a few links to some tools to help you increase productivity. Here is a similar list of development related tools that I simply cannot live without.

In development, especially for AspDotNetStorefront, there are two tools which you absolutely must have in order to do any kind of extensive development in the .Net Framework. (more…)