.NET Patterns: Architecture, Design, and Process [Paperback]

Christian Thilmany (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0321130022 | ISBN-13: 978-0321130020 | Publication Date: August 28, 2003 | Edition: 1

The complete software developer's guide to working in .NET environments Praise for .NET Patterns: "Was both insightful and comprehensive. It's great to see these patterns presented within the context of many architectural dilemmas facing the vastly interconnected enterprise. Web service architects are sure to see enormous value in this text." --Ed Draper, Microsoft Patterns have proven to be practical tools for the programmer who knows how to use them. In .NET Patterns, distributed computing and .NET expert Christian Thilmany presents both an introduction to patterns for programmers working in the .NET environment and a library of patterns unique to the .NET platform. Part of John Vlissides' critically acclaimed Addison-Wesley Software Patterns Series, .NET Patterns extends the proven concept of design patterns into the arena of .NET design and development. Now, .NET developers can depend on patterns to provide solutions to recurring problems in software design.In addition to covering both lower and higher level programming with patterns, this book also includes helpful primers on XML and web services, as well as thorough coverage of debugging, exceptions, error handling, and architecture. Whether you're working in .NET environments or transitioning to .NET environments, you'll find .NET Patterns a comprehensive resource for software solutions.

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The complete software developer's guide to working in .NET environments

Praise for .NET Patterns:

"Was both insightful and comprehensive. It's great to see these patterns presented within the context of many architectural dilemmas facing the vastly interconnected enterprise. Web service architects are sure to see enormous value in this text."

—Ed Draper, Microsoft

Patterns have proven to be practical tools for the programmer who knows how to use them. In .NET Patterns, distributed computing and .NET expert Christian Thilmany presents both an introduction to patterns for programmers working in the .NET environment and a library of patterns unique to the .NET platform.

Part of John Vlissides' critically acclaimed Addison-Wesley Software Patterns Series, .NET Patterns extends the proven concept of design patterns into the arena of .NET design and development. Now, .NET developers can depend on patterns to provide solutions to recurring problems in software design.

In addition to covering both lower and higher level programming with patterns, this book also includes helpful primers on XML and web services, as well as thorough coverage of debugging, exceptions, error handling, and architecture.

Whether you're working in .NET environments or transitioning to .NET environments, you'll find .NET Patterns a comprehensive resource for software solutions.

About the Author

CHRISTIAN THILMANY is .NET Solutions Architect for Microsoft Corporation. He has more than 13 years of experience consulting for a variety of Fortune 500 firms in fields such as distributed application architectures for Internet, Intranet, and client/server development. Christian is also a frequent contributor to Java Developer's Journal Magazine, Microsoft Interactive Developer (MIND), and MSDN Magazine.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (August 28, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321130022
• ISBN-13: 978-0321130020
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,113,211 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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33 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good content. Non-existent editing., August 31, 2003

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mattx "Frequent reader. Infrequent reviewer." (Massachusetts, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: .NET Patterns: Architecture, Design, and Process (Paperback)

THE GOOD: The patterns in this book are very good. Useful, informative, and well explained. The author really seems to know his stuff and convey it well.

THE NO SO GOOD: Too much time is spent inadequately introducing concepts that the reader should just be sent to another book for. Ironically the author realizes this and says so before he goes forward with his useless introductory material.

THE BAD: It appears that I am the first person to read this book since it was completed. It is probably among the five most poorly edited software books I have ever seen. Simply read the fist 10 pages and you will find at least one non-sensical sentence per page. Sometimes this is as simple as an extra verb or the accidental use of "it" when the author meant "is". Other times the entire thought becomes indecipherable in the middle of a line.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of Time, January 10, 2004

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Mijobe (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: .NET Patterns: Architecture, Design, and Process (Paperback)

This is the worst book I've ever read on programming, period. I've never taken the time to write a review before but this book is so horrible that it motivated me to look it up here and write it a poor review. I'm returning my copy. Simply put, there is very, very little useful content. Between the simple grammatical errors and the code errors I just couldn't bring myself to finish it. I read until page 59 telling myself it has to get better but it just didn't. Microsoft puts out a free book that you can download in PDF format named "Enterprise Solution Patterns using Microsoft .NET", save your money and read that. I cannot express how disappointed I was with this book.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Overall Not a very good book, January 5, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: .NET Patterns: Architecture, Design, and Process (Paperback)

As a person familiar with the original Go4 patterns. I think this book is definitely sub-standard. It definitely DOES NOT fit into the category of Great Pattern books (e.g Design Patterns book by Gamma et al). The Author obviously has experience in the technology and comes up with a handful of good pattern ideas however the code supporting some of these Ideas (e.g in the so called Poly Pattern)and through out the book raises more questions than answers. The conceptual explanations of what the patterns are supposed to achieve are ok to some extent but the authors coding style leaves much to be desired. The implementation of the hungarian notation in an object oriented context and his none conformance to standard OO coding standards (not even the standards laid down by microsoft the company he works for) makes poor reading for what could have been an excellent book. A simple review of the code in the book by FXcop (www.gotdotnet.com/team/fxcop/default.aspx) would support this notion. The editing of the book is also very poor. Often as you read through you wonder where a pattern begins or ends