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Title: .NET Patterns: Architecture, Design, and Process by Christian Thilmany ISBN: 0-321-13002-2 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 22 August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.36 (11 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Great - for a first draft
Comment: This book is a great resource for .NET Framework developers, with patterns that are very useful and nicely solve many common .NET Framework design challenges. In particular, I like the composite "Poly Model" pattern for a flexible data access layer.
Unfortunetely, the code is full of typos and just plain errors. It is frustrating to see a piece of code querying for the number of rows effected by a query, when the count was already returned to another variable just one line above! Terrible editing has taken much pleasure out of discovering the interesting and effective patterns.
I am most disappointed in the fact that there is no downloadable code samples that show the sample implementations in their entirety, and working (which would at least force the author to make sure the code can compile).
The only reason why I am giving 3 stars is because the patterns presented are excellent overall, but this book is like reading a first draft.
Rating: 1
Summary: One of the few books I've ever returned
Comment: I gave the book one star simply because no lower option is available.
I had high hopes this book would provide practical data tier patterns for a current project. However, the "polymodel" discussed in the book strikes me as so specialized (pertinent to atomic transaction based system - i.e. credit card authorization) that it is useless in most other areas. Even with that in mind, the concept of only storing your data as xml in a relational database is incredibly inefficient for my needs (such as data warehousing). The other point that struck me is he preceds all stored procedure names with sp_. I'm not a DBA but even I know this is a no no in Sql Server 2k. It actually slows calls to the stored procedures when you precede them with sp_.
I've not written a review before but based on the poor quality of what I've seen, I hope to save someone else the anguish.
Rating: 1
Summary: Waste of Time
Comment: 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.
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Title: Programming .NET Components by Juval Lowy ISBN: 0596003471 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Enterprise Solution Patterns Using Microsoft .NET by Microsoft Corporation ISBN: 0735618399 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 24 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.99 |
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Title: Application Architecture for .Net: Designing Applications and Services by Microsoft ISBN: 0735618372 Publisher: Microsoft patterns & practices Pub. Date: 23 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Windows Forms Programming in C# by Chris Sells ISBN: 0321116208 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 29 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler ISBN: 0321127420 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 05 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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