.NET Enterprise Development in VB.NET: From Design to Deployment [Paperback]

Matt Reynolds (Author), Karli Watson (Author), Brian Patterson (Author), Bill Forgey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2002

Packed with practical solutions to your enterprise development problems, this book will take your application development to a new level. You will be able to apply the lessons you learn from the book to your own applications without first having to wade through reams of theory.

During the book, we use a tool developed by an author (The full source code is made available to readers, with an appendix devoted to its full description), which uses the structure of a relational database to build a rich object layer. This abstracts a lot of the complexity of building a rich application object model and makes it possible for application architects and programmers to create a powerful, highly reusable object model with a simple desktop application.

The book begins by taking a look at the overall design of the enterprise application and then moves on to show how the enterprise can be accessed from desktop and mobile applications, as well as over the web using ASP.NET. Web Services also play a big part by exposing the functionality of the underlying business objects, as well as being used for authentication amongst other things. Of course, security is discussed where particular issues arise, as well as being covered in more depth in its own chapter. Once we have the enterprise application up and running, we look at administration, hosting, and management.

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From the Publisher

Packed with practical solutions to your enterprise development problems, you will apply the lessons learned here to your own applications without having to sift through reams of theory.

People interested in this would be:

- Developing and selling off-the-shelf software products for use as line-of-business (or to an extent productivity) applications

- People who customize either their own organization's off-the-shelf products or another organization's off-the-shelf products for deployment as a line-of-business application

- Developing line-of-business applications internally

Intermediate in level, this book will help beginners and advanced developers alike to appreciate the scope and requirements inherent in building enterprise applications.

About the Author

After working with Wrox Press on a number of projects since 1999, Matthew Reynolds is now an in-house author for Wrox writing about and working with just about every aspect of the Microsoft .NET Framework. He's also a regular contributor to Wrox's ASPToday, C#Today, and Web Services Architect sites. He lives and works in North London and can be reached on [e-mail].

Karli Watson is an in-house author for Wrox Press with a penchant for multicolored clothing. He started out with the intention of becoming a world famous nanotechnologist, so perhaps one day you might recognize his name as he receives a Nobel Prize. For now, though, Karli's computing interests include all things mobile, and upcoming technologies such as C#.

Bill Forgey is the Technical Lead in his current position, introducing project methodology, new technologies, standards, and training to development teams. He has spent some time consulting and has been exposed to technologies such as ASP, Delphi, Pascal, COM, C/C++, SQL, Java, ADO, Visual Basic, and now .NET. He also co-authored Professional VB.NET (Wrox Press) and Beginning Visual Basic .NET Databases (Wrox Press).

Brian Patterson currently works for Affina, Inc. as a Technical Team Leader, where he is generally working with C++ on HP-UX or Windows development with any number of the Visual Studio languages. Brian wrote his first programming article at the age of 19 (1994) and has been writing for various programming publications ever since. Brian has co-authored several .NET related books including "Migrating to Visual Basic .NET" and "C# Bible".

Product Details

• Paperback: 450 pages
• Publisher: Wrox Press (February 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1861006179
• ISBN-13: 978-1861006172
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,234,099 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Consume this book, September 2, 2002

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brian k fuller (minneapolis, mn United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: .NET Enterprise Development in VB.NET: From Design to Deployment (Paperback)

I have learned more from this book relative to real world usage of VB.NET than from all the others I have purchased. Pluses: The authors assume a certain level of expertise and do not coddle you. Examples are more challenging than you will find in most texts. As an example of salient techniques in enterprise development this book is excellent.
Minuses: I learned as much from this book from what the authors omitted as I did from what they included. There are huge issues/bugs which you are left to work through by yourself. However this is not necessarilly a bad thing. Past the 8th chapter of the book the authors (or maybe the editors) seem to lose interest and the level of problems increase dramaticallly.
e.g if you don't understand the concept of custom attributes in chapter 9 you can get hung up for an eternity until you notice that the authors explain it 65 page later. I beg to differ with the previous British reviewer on a few points most significantly: although there is a lot of great code in the "web enterprise objects" library it's hardly production quality. Additionally the assertion that this code can supplant 80% of the project coding effort is blatantly false. My thought is, with some tweaking, it could offset 25-30% of the coding effort and for this it would be well worthwhile.
All in all this is an excellent work. Please view my negative reactions only as anindicator of how valuable I found this book.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars why make a difficult subject even harder?, July 5, 2003

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B. Olalekan "smithsonian2000" (Nashville, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: .NET Enterprise Development in VB.NET: From Design to Deployment (Paperback)

I was looking for a good book on enterprise development in preparation for my first "big" enterprise project, so I got this book in the hope that I would learn something worthwhile.
Having already been involved in the development of stand-alone applications over the years, I was comfortable with the basics.
My, was I disappointed! The authors obviously knew what they were doing, but how to make themselves understood by mere mortals like myself was their greatest problem. It did not
take me long to begin to wonder why I could easily follow Fransesco Balena's advanced writings, and I could not follow these authors'. Tried as I may I could not get past the
first two chapters or so, before I looked for some other things to do.
This is the second book by Matt Reynold's that I have bought (the other was Beginning E-commerce with VB, MTS and ASP), and I have been unhappy with both books. I don't think I
will be going near his books anytime in the future.
If you really want to learn something about enterprise development, I suggest you scour Microsoft's MSDN website, or look for a more responsible book. This website has tons of lists you could also check out. This one is a waste of precious time.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Generous at 3 stars, October 30, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: .NET Enterprise Development in VB.NET: From Design to Deployment (Paperback)

I found the language in this book very difficult to follow. The WEO code is good, but following the examples in the book is a challenge. It is obviuos the book was put together quickly and that it is aimed at expert developers, who probably don't need a book like this. The downloadable code does not track the book examples very well. Only the final example in each 2 to 3 chapter group is included, the intermediate examples aimed at getting you familiar with the material are not included and expletives on buttons in the download code is so unprofessional.