Customer Reviews

.NET Enterprise Development in C#: From Design to Deployment

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4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(4)
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This book should be called "an walkthrough of a .NET application".

You cannot explain enterprise development by walking us through one application! They needed to explain why they have designed a component in a particular way, and possible alternatives for different scenarios.

The books is basically a walkthrough of an application written by the authors. I was hoping for something along the lines of a discussion of designing an implementing enterprise applications.

I think their data access mechanism is better than hard coding sql but I wouldn't use it in production. It is not a true object orientated persistence layer.

However I rate this book 2 stars because their are some things that I gained from their example app. There are always things to learn from analyzing an application.

I Don't know if any of the reviewers have read all the book and have tried the source code , because I have done so and I have found lot of errors in the Builder program source code and also in the Authentication process they have described and all the problems I faced I have reported to the Author Matthew Reynolds at his email address mentioned in the book but no reply so I have resent it to him a second and a third time but also no reply so I sent it to Support at WROX but also no reply .
Now I have corrected all the errors and I have rewritten all the missing procedures and I don't need any help from them , but I don't know if they can continue wroking in this way .
I gave the book 4 stars for the content and 0 stars for the suuport so overall 2 stars .

I do personally like how this book has written. Yes, it does not concentrate a lot on "enterprise design" concepts, but gives you an idea how to structure your program internally to eliminate unnecessary coding, etc. And I do back up the authors idea to show all these concepts based on sample application. This is a book to help to real developers, but not to "enterprise development theoretics". Very usefull book, especially if you're going to deelop your very first "enterprise" application in C#.

I was looking for a book that really discussed enterprise design with .NET, and did not get it.

The book was too low level, and spent too much time describing the author's data class creation tool, with very little actual discussion of design related topics.

In spite of its small size, this book is surprisingly good. It is not all you will need to develop your "next big thing", but it points you in the right direction nevertheless.
If you are about to develop your first big project (like me) and you need a relatively brief guide, this might be a book for you.
And, contrary to what the other readers said about support, I didn't have any problems downloading the codes at all. In any case, I just downloaded the codes, so the previous problems encountered by other readers must have been addressed.

This is just a response to a previous post. The source code for this book is located at http://support.apress.com.

The Good: Great content. Focuses on high level design and implementation and leaves the nitty gritty details to a pre-coded object model. Geared more toward advanced enterprise developers who do not want to wade through boilerplate code.

The Bad: A few typos and code example errors.

The Ugly: Buyer Beware! Wrox seems to have abandoned this title. You cannot download any of the code samples, which makes the high level approach less appealing.

I like to rate a book by the amount of new and different knowledge I get from it as well as the enjoyment factor. This includes techniques and design styles not often seen in other books. This book has just that. I share a lot of design style with the authors so I guess I also found it partly flattering. The book shows you approaches to application design and development that you don't find in other .NET books in such good example - The Application Browser, Auto-generated Base classes, Custom GUI subobjects (Treeview nodes) - these are just a few. I found myself looking forward to getting out of work so I can continue reading it. I thought only Tom Clancy can accomplish that. Conclusion: This is by far one of the best tech books I have ever read....The authors build a relatively small system but use just about all the .NET technologies - Web, Windows, Mobile, Console, Services, Web Services, Remoting, etc. I bought the VB.NET version as well for language comparison. Oh yeah - you need a good .NET/C# foundation because they really dive right in - head first.

I was looking for a .NET Enterprise book that would dive into lots of .NET Enterprise Architecture topics and material. This book does cover some .NET Enterprise Architecture topics but overall it just didn't meet my expectations. The book is a good walk through book that steps you through the authors development process of a .NET Enterprise level application, but it is not a hardcore .NET architecute book which I was hoping for.

I think the book is a good guide to get the idea of the development of a enterprise aplication, but focuses too much in the example application (wasting time), and does not cover the necessary theory in .net or in general enterprise applications to really understand the process and get the big picture.