Enterprise Development with Visual Studio .NET, UML, and MSF [Paperback]

John Erik Hansen (Author), Carsten Thomsen (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1590590422 | ISBN-13: 978-1590590423 | Publication Date: May 24, 2004

¿Enterprise Development with Visual Studio .NET, UML, and MSF¿ is for programmers dealing with or those that have an interest in developing Enterprise .NET solutions. It will guide readers through all aspects of Enterprise modeling, from design considerations and project management design processes to modeling a .NET solution using UML. In today¿s IT world, the need for complex solutions designed the right way and delivered on time is a success factor for the entire Enterprise. ¿Enterprise Development with Visual Studio .NET, UML, and MSF¿ will help readers succeed by providing them with guides and examples that they can use in their own .NET projects. It will cover the Microsoft Solutions Framework and how to benefit from this process when designing. Programmers can also use this book as a reference or as a step-by-step guide for creating Enterprise solutions the right way with design processes, UML, .NET Framework, and C# and VB .NET. About the Author Carsten Thomsen is a Microsoft MVP, recognition he received in August 1999. He lives in his native Denmark and currently holds the MCSE and MCSD certifications. Carsten has been programming in Visual Basic for almost 10 years, with a specialization in data access. However, with the advent of Visual Basic .NET and, more important, Visual Studio .NET, he has concentrated on two programming languages, C# and Visual Basic .NET¿staying focused with regard to data access from these two programming languages. John Erik Hansen is a freelance consultant specializing in project management (MSF) and business analysis. He has 8 years of experience working as a project manager, consultant, Microsoft CTEC Trainer, business analyst, and programmer (Data Warehousing, eProcurement, Active Server Pages (ASP), Visual Basic, .NET). Lately John has been working as a consultant doing projects all over Europe. He lives with his girlfriend Karen in Odense, Denmark. He currently holds the Microsoft MCSD and Rational Rose certifications. John enjoys traveling and is a passionate soccer fan and squash player. See more about John at this address: http://www.project2.dk.

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John Erik Hansen is a specialist in project management, business analysis, and UML analysis/modeling. In these fields, he is credited for his ability of ensuring project successes. John holds the MCSD and Rational Rose certifications, and a has graduate diploma in business administration. Lately, John has been working as a consultant on projects all over Europe. He has 10 years of experience working as a project manager, consultant, Microsoft CTEC Trainer, business analyst, and programmer (of data warehousing, e-procurement, ASP, Visual Basic, and .NET applications).

Carsten Thomsen is a Microsoft "Most Valuable Professional," a recognition he received in August 1999. He lives in his native Denmark and currently holds the MCSE, MCAD, and MCSD certifications. Carsten has been programming in Visual Basic for more than 12 years, and he specializes in data access, object-oriented analysis and design, and enterprise development. These days, Carsten is primarily focused on development with Visual Studio .NET, using MSF, UML, Visual Basic .NET, and C#, but he also enjoys working with Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003, Microsoft Content Management Server 2002, and Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004. Carsten now works as a .NET consultant mainly in London and Dublin, but he also does the odd .NET training job.

Product Details

• Paperback: 984 pages
• Publisher: Apress (May 24, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590590422
• ISBN-13: 978-1590590423
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,436,384 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Average book, missleading title., December 12, 2004

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A. Wiklund - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Enterprise Development with Visual Studio .NET, UML, and MSF (Paperback)

Bought this book hoping it was a good guide to developing enterprise applications in VS.Net with UML (visio); man was I wrong. If you have the slightest idea of what UML is, and you know your way around VS.Net, go somewhere else. It just scratches the surface of a lot of things and you have probably read this somewhere else. But, the reason for the three stars is that if you are new to VS.Net, this is actually a good book. It has a lot of heuristics and guidelines for a rookie developer, on how to plan you project, protect your code and deploy your applications. Not exactly what I was looking for.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good companion to have after you have mastered VB/Net or C#, October 21, 2004

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John Brunton (Roan Mountain, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Enterprise Development with Visual Studio .NET, UML, and MSF (Paperback)

I have been working with .Net for almost 2 years now. This book is a good companion to enhance your over-all skills as a .Net developer. It really helps to see how you would use UML and MSF to complement your .Net coding skills. There are areas of this book that tends to drag (really, we didn't need the comparison to Rational XDE nor did we realy need to cover Visual Source Safe).

What I would like to have seen is actual documents that would be produced when going through the life cycle as described in section six - MSF (this is where a lot of books fall short).

But sections 1 - 4 (with the exception perhaps of VSS) are real gems. Definitely worth the price of the book.

Good job John & Carsten!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hard work, June 18, 2004

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"johnboy337" (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Enterprise Development with Visual Studio .NET, UML, and MSF (Paperback)

It must have taken quite some time to get all the information in this book together. A number of topics covered can be found in msdn but there's also plenty of other enterprise relevant information like msf and uml. I like the way the book is written and where the information overlaps the sometimes tedious coverage in msdn the authors present the information in an intuitive way and with many extras. One extra is the way you manually unbind a vs .net project from vss, excellent.