You’ve used Orchard to easily create your product site and now you want to add commerce features. The Checkout by Amazon module contains several components that allow you to integrate checkout and shopping cart capabilities to your Orchard CMS Website. The module works with any content type that has a Title, Price, Image, Description and... read more
You have a great set of products and now a beautiful commerce site drawing significant traffic. How will you let your interested customers make purchases in an easy, familiar, and trusted manner? As demonstrated by Drew Robbins in today’s MIX 11 keynote, the Amazon Checkout Helper for WebMatrix makes it simple to integrate features such... read more
You’ve just signed a big partnership and expect traffic to your site to increase. Oh-oh, what if your site can’t handle the load? Autocosmos.com is a web portal that allows users from eight Latin-American countries find the best car deals, offer cars for sale, and find quality car insurance, among other services. Following a strategic... read more
Just finished that task on your daily commitments? No need to tweet your status, just check it off your myTODO list, and let the application tweet for you. The myTODO sample application is a simple list sharing service that integrates with Twitter. This sample demonstrates not only how easy it is to build powerful applications... read more
Wouldn’t it be cool if you took advantage of decision engine capabilities of Bing within your application? Yes, it would. This Web Application Toolkit shows how to take advantage of the Bing API to add search capabilities to your Web site, leveraging the various search results that the Bing API provides, including Web content, images,... read more
“Where are my keys?” “Have you seen my homework?” “What’s for dinner?” If only your home had an easily accessible FAQ list. Maybe your home doesn’t have one, but there’s not excuse for your application not to. The Web Application Toolkit for FAQs provides a reusable set of assets, like ASP.NET pages, data access code,... read more
Who? What? When? Your users will easily answer that last question when you incorporate calendaring into your application. The Web Application Toolkit for Calendars provides a standards-based service that can be reused in your own Web application to expose calendaring and events information for different users, using different data formats (iCalendar, XML, JSON). This service... read more
Dear customer, your order has been received by a local distribution center. Thank you for your patronage. It’s easy to send a static and generic message, but your customers deserve better. Something that’s personal and with useful details. The Web Application Toolkit for Template-Driven Email demonstrates how to generate and send dynamic, template-based emails from... read more
Your Web application’s users are mobile. Count on it. But do you offer a mobile device experience for them? The Web Application Toolkit for Mobile Web Applications demonstrates how to extend an existing ASP.NET MVC Web application to provide access from mobile devices. This sample provides a reusable component called MobileCapableViewEngine that enables your Web... read more
Gooooooooooaaaaalll! As the 2010 FIFA World Cup approached, the Bola Facebook application reached two million monthly active users. In this social application players own teams, build a stadium, gain sponsorships, and can challenge both friends and other random Bola players in their level to compete in soccer matches. Taking advantage of the scalability of Windows... read more