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The term project is to add enhancements to your music store. This is your opportunity to be creative!

  1. Enhancement ideas

  2. Instructions for turning in project

  3. Project grading

1. Enhancement Ideas

Make sure that you have the basic music store working properly before you start on enhancements. Enhancements are of little value if they are added to non-functional sites. 

Tip: Before starting to work on enhancements that could cause existing code to malfunction, I suggest that you make a backup copy of your project in a separate folder. 

Some ideas for enhancements are listed below. You are also encouraged to be creative and come up with other ideas.

  1. Encrypt CustID to prevent impersonation.

    1. Add the encryption class to your project by creating a folder named "helpers" and add encryptString.cs. This class provides two static methods, Encrypt and Decrypt.
    2. A new property is needed in CustomerModel for passing the encrypted custID. Add a new property to CustomerModel named CustIDe of type string.
    3. Anywhere CustID is sent to the client replace the hidden form field CustID with CustIDe. Encrypt CustID in the controller using the syntax: 
       customerModel.CustIde = EncryptString.Encrypt(customerModel.CustId.ToString());
    4. Decrypt CustIDe in the controller using the syntax: 
      customerModel.CustId = Convert.ToInt32(EncryptString.Decrypt(customerModel.CustIde));
    5. Test encryption with both new and returning customers.
  2. Upgrade the graphical appearance of your music store.
  3. Truncate product descriptions on spaces. Hint: use LastIndexMethod of string class.
  4. Add a shopping cart status box (see header in MVC Music).
  5. Add caching to the category menu, search, browse and/or detail views. This is quite easy: MVC OutputCaching. Include a cache time in the view to confirm that it is working. (see MVC Music/index).
  6. Add a listing of viewed items so the user can easily get back to previously viewed items (see MVC Music).
  7. Add Lightbox, Highslide JS or other JavaScript tool for displaying images on the details page  (see MVC Music).
  8. List best sellers based upon data in tblOrderItems (see MVC Music right column).
  9. Add track listings to detail page. Most items have track data in tblTracks. (see MVC Music).
  10. Add customers who bought this item also bought to detail page (based upon SQL query). (see MVC Music).
  11. Add Amazon similar items on details page. This data is located in tblSimilarProducts. (see MVC Music).
  12. Add a list of music styles to which a product is assigned to the details page. Each item is assigned to one or more styles in tblStyleAsin. Some styles have parent styles, which themselves may have parent styles. ParentStyleIDs are located in tblStyles. ParentStyleID = 0 means that it is a root style without a parent style. (see MVC Music).
  13. Add order grouping to the order history page.  (see MVC Music/index).
  14. Custom validation used to prevent duplicate email address in database. (See MVC Music) checkout.
  15. Validate city-state-zip code combinations by looking them up in a zip code database. A zipcode database containing over 42,000 city, state, zip codes is available for your use on Yorktown (see checkout in MVC Music). The connection string in the web.config file has the syntax:
    <add name="ZipCodes"connectionString="Data Source=yorktown.cbe.wwu.edu\dsciweb;Initial Catalog=Zipcodes;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=ZipcodeReader;Password=zipGuest" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />

    NOTE: This database is behind WWU's firewall. To access it from off campus you will need to have a VPN established on your computer.

  16. Add a professional web design theme to your site (Smashing Magazine recommendations).
  17. Add Google Place Autocomplete Address Form to checkout (note: this is more difficult than you might think)  (see MVC Music).
  18. Add lazy loading to the order history page. photo gallery utilizes lazy loading.
  19. Add customer reviews to the details page. This requires a new model, database table, partial view for displaying the reviews, form for writing reviews, three action methods in the controller, and two new methods in musicRepository (one for adding reviews and one for reading them). See MVC Music.
  20. Add Recaptcha to the product review form to prevent bots from posting span. To use the sample code you will need to download the recaptcha.dll from Google and put it into your bin folder. See MVC Music
  21. Create a customer wish list. The wish list should persist between sessions and be sharable with an email address, requiring that the wish list items would need to be written to a database (similar to the shopping cart). See Amazon.com as an example of a wish list. 
  22. Validate that customer email addresses are unique before writing them to the database. The sample site uses a custom validator. The validator's handler calls a method of the checkout class named "EmailIsUnique." This method executes a sql query that counts the number of instances for the email address, excluding the current CustID. If the count is > zero the validator reject the email address. he email address.
  23. Create administrative pages for managing customer and order information. This could include the ability to edit customer information, an interface for managing order status (shipped, partially shipped, returned, etc.) and adding new products to the database. (Note: In MIS 424 this is done using Microsoft's Entity Framework which is very convenient for this task).
  24. For other ideas look at Amazon, REI, and other sophisticated shopping sites.

Include a list of your enhancements in your "About this store" section so that I don't miss any when grading your assignment.

2. Instructions for turning in Project

The project is due at the date and time shown on the course schedule.  Late projects will be subject to a penalty of 15 points per 24 hours (so don't be late!).

Source code: I need to see your project source code to grade the final project. Create a folder named "myFiles" in your root folder on Yorktown and copy in your entire VS project. A course grade will not be submitted until this is completed. Once course grades are submitted I will delete these files from the server.

Submit the URL to your music store's home page (default.aspx) via the Canvas course management system.

3. Project Grading

The project will be graded based on the basic store created in assignments 7, 8 and 9, plus any enhancements that you have added. The basic store that you have completed by the end of assignment 9 will earn a grade of approximately a B-. Enhancements are a way for your to further improve your grade.

The grading of the final project is very detailed and includes looking at your source code to make sure that you have coded efficiently and neatly. Specifically I will be checking to make sure that you have used user controls for all code that is reused, that your browse menu is dynamically generated and that you code is original (your own work).

Project grades will be posted on Canvas.

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