Introduction

An e-commerce web application built using SQL Server, EF, ASP. NET Core MVC, C#, Javascript and an assortment of other libraries and web services.

Data Entity Relationship Diagram

Application Class Diagram

Getting Started

1. Installation process:

(See "Build and Test" section of this document.)

2. Software dependencies:

• ASP.NET Core 5.0 MVC
• Entity Framework Core
• C#
• Javascript
• JQuery
• Bootstrap
• DataTables
• Razor
• ShipEngine Web API
• TaxJar Web API
• Shopify Web API
• SendGrid Web API
• Stripe Payment Gateway Web API

3. Web API, languages and technology stack references:

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/
• https://getbootstrap.com/
• https://www.javascript.com/
• https://jquery.com/
• https://datatables.net/
• https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/mvc
• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-2019
• https://www.iis.net/
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/
• https://www.shipengine.com/docs/getting-started/
• https://www.taxjar.com/product/api
• https://shopify.dev/api
• https://stripe.com/docs/api
• https://docs.sendgrid.com/

Build and Test

1. Create and configure a private application within the target Shopify store.
2. Configure additional external services (ShipEngine, SendGrid, TaxJar and Stripe.)
3. Extract and deploy current .dacpac to SQL Server. Configure security, and business-domain entities as needed.
4. Web or folder deploy to IIS or Azure Cloud App (.NET Core 5.0 application pool), configure appsettings.json as needed.
5. Access using a web browser or build and execute Visual Studio solution.