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OOP: Building Reusable Components with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Visual Basic.Net) (Paperback)

by Ken Spencer (Author), Tom Eberhard (Author), John Alexander (Author) "Welcome to the world of object-oriented development with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and the M..." (more)
Key Phrases: custom user control, composite server control, custom server control, End Sub, Visual Basic, Web Forms (more...)

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Object Oriented Programming (OOP) is now a reality with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET. This hands-on reference teaches professional programmers the proven, real-world strategies for constructing rich, object-oriented frameworks for complex business applications-faster and more efficiently. Focusing on a crucial problem many businesses face today, the shortage of skilled application developers, this book details how to quickly create reusable code components using Visual Basic.NET. All the book's code examples are contained on a companion CD-ROM.

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Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press (November 9, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735613796
ISBN-13: 978-0735613799
Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.1 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds

Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Putting it all together, December 2, 2003

By	Thomas C. Banks (Midlothian, VA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The .Net framework is huge. After professionally developing several web projects I had the nuts and bolts pretty much nailed. However, putting it all together into a sound model/approach is tough.

I wish I'd read this book earlier on because it would have saved me a lot of pain. After you're past the novice stage and have a handle on the VB.Net syntax and object model, this book is the next step. It contains lots of code snippets and you can download their entire code library used to build the sample apps but the real key here is learning a sound methology.

One review was critical of their approach. I disagree with his comments. This book offers not only a sound approach to application design using .Net (with some concentration on web development), n-tier architecture is accepted practice. The book offers a sound VB.Net implementation. Of course, it's hardly the only way and is a tad simplistic for the real world intranet apps I'm working on. But it should help intermediate programmers put it all together to move to the next level.

My only complaint is that I wish it contained more code details, some broader coverage, and was more advanced. But that's a personal gripe because by the time I'd picked this up I'd personally grown past its content through the school of hard knocks.

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5.0 out of 5 stars #2 VB.NET book on my list, August 8, 2003

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I have only read 9 books related to vb.net and most of them seem to be a copy of the MSDN library. This book is underrated but I found this book to be precise what I needed. It gives real world solutions, exploiting many of the .NET framework classes. While in other books only two or three chapters are of value this book is withinh the TOP on my list. This book is different because you are creating a full enterprise application, building different classes with specific purposes and then putting it together to have an End-product. It is this putting together that will help you understand the potentials of VB.NET

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2.0 out of 5 stars TOO MANY BAD PRACTICES, January 24, 2003

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First of all, this book has almost nothing to do with OOP. It has some useful tidbits, such as using custom (server) controls to reduce coding and to increase standardization.

However, I cannot recommend this title because of the many poor practices and bad application design it advocates. Why Microsoft Press doesn't insist it's title have some consistency in the use of naming standards, coding standards, application design, etc., is beyond me.

The application design is poor or maybe the examples are just poorly done. The business layer doesn't appear to enforce any business rules while the data-access layer is also unconventially designed.

Only one-third of this book (regarding server controls and UI design) is of any use. The rest is just junk.

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1.0 out of 5 stars This book is 99% crap.
I have 2 bookshelves of bargain .net books. This is by far the worst on the whole collection.

I was expecting a book on component building. Read more

Published on March 14, 2007 by Vort3xxX

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!
I found this book was very easy reading. The ASP.Net server controls are very good. I also use the Data Layer in all of my .Net applications. It's very solid code. Read more

Published on May 24, 2004 by wizardxml

1.0 out of 5 stars No good . . .
Well, if you have absolutely NO experience with OOP and were looking for a good book to help you learn it . . . don't get this. Read more

Published on May 15, 2004 by Jason Bunting

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Foundation for Developement Standard
This book is now required by my development staff to read before developing .NET applications. The first is "Practical Standards for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET". Read more

Published on June 29, 2003 by Michael Wharton

2.0 out of 5 stars MISNAMED AND NOT PARTICULARLY USEFUL
Is "junk" too harsh a term for this book? Yes and no.

Some of it is very useful, but the majority of the book isn't--particularly the architectural guidelines. Read more

Published on May 5, 2003

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Intermediate Text
The book takes you through creating an OOP,n-tier application in ASP.NET (using VB) - data, business, and presentation layers. Read more

Published on March 14, 2003 by Kenneth E. Bagwell

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