shopping w/o logging in

shopping cart... why most of the online shopping website can add item to cart even without logging in? how did they do that in asp.net?

Cookies, session IDs?

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Cookies, session IDs?

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How?

Because it in my MSSQL it goes like this; 'Select * From MOrder WHERE CustID=" & cCusID

How about when there is no current user?

Cookies, session IDs? :)

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Originally Posted by arshesander

How?

Because it in my MSSQL it goes like this; 'Select * From MOrder WHERE CustID=" & cCusID

How about when there is no current user?

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You need to map an order/shopping cart to a session ID (which you can retrieve from the session) and later, when the user decides to check out and log in with his/her credentials, map the session ID to the user ID to complete the check out.

If you are currently mapping the order/shopping cart to a customer ID (which I believe you are), you may have to change that logic.

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Hello,

For getting more information about this, it might help to look at a complete sample. There are a number of them available here:

http://www.asp.net/web-forms/samples

And I am sure that at least one of them will have a Shopping Cart that has the functionality that you require.

Gary