1. New Products Web Site By Gene Wong New Products Web Site Introduction: Users can view, search, rate and comment on products in the Products database. Product managers can administer and monitor product related content. Audience: General public with the exception of the administration pages. Project Goals: Build a data access component to provide any necessary methods needed relating to the retrieving, adding or updating data in the Products database. Create web site where users can browse and search for products in the Products database. Develop web pages for product managers to be able to manage and monitor products. New Products Data Access Layer Introduction: This component assembly contains data access methods that are pertinent to new products. Project Goals: Create a component assembly for the purpose of housing data access methods that are pertinent to new products. Data access method to retrieve a product record: This data access method is used to retrieve a product record with a given product id; the record is returned in a dataset. The StringBuilder object is used to efficiently build the Sql query. Exception handling will catch exceptions and pass them to the calling method. Xml comments are used to provide documentation within Visual Studio’s IDE. Data access method to insert a new product record into the Product database: This data access method is used to insert a new product record with given values into the Product database. The value of the new product id will be returned by the method. New Products Web Pages Introduction: Users can browse products and search for products in the Products database. Users can rate and comment on a product. Audience: General public Project Goals: Enable users to browse products by category and subcategory. Allow users to view details of featured products. Enable searching of products. Permit users to rate and comment on a product. Create pages according to design specifications. XML Menu: This xml file is used to specify the menu items for the main menu. CSS File: This css file is used to control the display of some items. Skins File: This skins file is used to control the display of some controls. New Products Administration Web Pages Introduction: This web page provides the product manager with the ability to manage products, related data, and relationships within the products database. Images can be associated to products and uploaded to the web server. The ability to search by issue date or by manufacturer and product will aid in locating a specific product. Audience: Company’s Products Manager Project Goals: Provide for the administration of products, sponsored products, categories, subcategories, and manufacturers within the Products database. Make available the ability for associating products to the desired categories and subcategories. Allow for the uploading of product images to the web server. Enable searching for products by issue date (month and year). Make available the ability to search for products by manufacturer and product. Permit filtering of products by featured products. Display top 100 rated products. Validate input values. Include error handling. MultiView Control: The MultiView control is used to provide different form views and to group and manage controls as a whole; there is a view for the administration of products, categories and subcategories, and manufacturers. File Upload: If images related to products are available, they can be associated to the appropriate product and uploaded to the web server. Exception handling will catch exceptions and display an error message for the user. Master Page: Master page is used to provide a consistent theme and layout for the product web pages and to reduce the duplication of code. Method: This method is used to perform all necessary actions to update the product list control; it calls other methods necessary to complete this task. Screen shot of Administration Web Page: