Customer Reviews

Enterprise Development with Visual Studio .NET, UML, and MSF

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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.

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!

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.

This book was a pre-order but I'm very very happy. The authors give me exactly what i want, more UML, more Visio, more very detailed information about everything. Examples, editing the proj files (csproj and vbproj) with notepad to change source control, build orders, etc. Likewise, the editing of the proj.webinfo file resolved a major headache for me. Another great example was strong naming. Good information on a somewhat arcane topic and an excellent link to MSDN. I've already used the book 2-3 times this week to resolve real world issues.

The only thing i would have liked more would be more of an emphasis on Design Patterns along with the UML. The discussion of Rational XDE was also great!!

I'm buying more of this book for staff and recommending it to fellow architects.

I bought this book some 3 weeks ago and expected to use it as a reference book but after reading chapters 1 through 4 I couldn't stop reading. It is a real pleasure reading about topics that interest you but more so when the writing is as smooth as the authors have made it.

The main reason I bought the book was the UML and Visio bits and they're excellent but after reading about enterprise templates I feel that I'm sufficiently qualified to introduce this is my department, great job.

For developers on a Microsoft platform, Microsoft has offered Visual Studio as its flagship development environment. A very sophisticated package. Naturally, as .NET was fleshed out, VS has been upgraded to help you program in that framework. The authors accordingly go into reams of detail, with numerous screen captures, showing what VS.NET can do for you.

They also cover how VS can be integrated with UML. So that, as a very nifty feature, VS can autogenerate code given as input a set of UML diagrams. To some of you, it will be a big timesaver, and it lets you concentrate on writing the key parts of your code, not boilerplate. Of course, different developers will have different needs, but clearly some of you will appreciate this UML ability.

The authors also talk about using Microsoft Solutions Framework as a project design framework. Much here is not instrinsically tied to .NET or even Microsoft. This part of the book has a lot of high level jargon. The ideas seem clear enough. But so does a lot of other ideas about project design and management. There is a big impedance mismatch between this chapter and the rest of the book. Perhaps the chapter could have been expanded into a book of its own?

Finally, a book that covers software design from a .NET developer perspective.

While the book make an extensive use of Microsoft tools (Visual Studio and Visio), the authors offer an uncompromising and clear material.

Clearly written for seasoned developers, the books still offers novice programers a good primer on OO programing.

I read this book before taking the MSF practitioner exam and it's one of my best MSF sources. Another thing I like about the book is that this book starts where most .NET books stops; at the entrance to enterprise development. Finally a book not taking the easy way of teaching .NET development. It guides you thoroughly into the world of enterprise projects. Especially I like the way enterprise templates are described using exercises. Do get this book if you want a guide and a reference to enterprise development using .NET.

with so many enterprise books out there it's refreshing to see one that actually does what it says on the tin: educate/teach you how to work with various tools and methods on enterprise projects. i haven't seen any other books make visio and uml so easy to learn nor have i found other books with as detailed and yet easy to learn msf info. a truly good book

I've got to write a review about this book and it is simply fantastic. There is so much good information in it, it is unbelievable. Take the UML bits which starts with some introductory chapters and then builds on these and the same can be said about MSF (I am totally new to MSF and not an expert on UML). With the enterprise project chapters and the hands-on chapters this is truly a book that can be picked up by most members of a development organization (I am a team lead / project manager). There is information in this book that can be used to educate the team members and yet you can use the book as a very good reference guide. The enterprise tool chapters are good canfidates for the latter. All in all a fantastic book.