Converting Currency in a Shopping Cart or Checkout Page

Introduction

Many merchants, especially those whose primary focus is with sales on an international level, require that currency be converted.   This conversion is usually displayed to the customer in their shopping cart or on a checkout page.   Or perhaps the shopping cart, currency conversion, order details, etc. are all displayed as part of a checkout page.   Whatever the case may be, this code example will point you in the right direction!  

Code Example

The example code contains the necessary comments for the user to gain a fundmental understanding of the application.   This working example only contains a few countries, but as the user will see, it can be easily expanded upon.  

Implementation

To use this application simply unzip it, open it the solution in VS.NET 2005 and no code modification is necessary.

Once this is done you will be able to build your solution and view it.

Download

The application is attached, simply click below to download.