.NET Enterprise Development in C#: From Design to Deployment [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

by Matt Reynolds (Author), Karli Watson (Author)

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Product Description
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.

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.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 500 pages
• Publisher: Peer Information; 1st edition (February 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1861005911
• ISBN-13: 978-1861005915
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,440,234 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not what it seems, January 7, 2003

By	Mr. Lachlan James (Werrington Downs, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good Content and Bad Support, July 25, 2002

By	Hayssam Jean Serhan (ZOUK, KESROUAN Lebanon) - See all my reviews

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 .

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Location of example code, March 13, 2004

By	KornMuffin (NJ United States) - See all my reviews

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