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Title: .NET Enterprise Design with Visual Basic .NET and SQL Server 2000 by Jimmy Nilsson, Francesco Balena ISBN: 0672322331 Publisher: Sams Pub. Date: 12 December, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29
Rating: 5
Summary: Recommended for .NET developers and architects
Comment: First of all this book is not about learning a new language syntax! The book is also not filled with code listings. Code fragments are just printed if they have added value in the book. The author provides code examples separately (provided with comments). So it is not a book that the fellow below is looking for (a book that teaches him how to contact SQL Server from Visual Basic .NET)
The book is focused on people that want to learn more about building (large scale) enterprise applications using the Microsoft .NET platform. I personally think this book is as well suited for architects as well as more code addicted people.
The author provides guidelines and patterns for developing and designing data centric N-tier enterprise applications using the .NET platform (using ADO.NET, COM+/.NET Component services, VB.NET/C#) and SQL Server (including T-SQL). Some subjects being discussed in this book: where to put business rules, how to implement these business rules, a new data access pattern, concurrency control, transactions etc.
The book also provides guidelines (not just on the end of the book!) for dealing with testing, error handling and preparing for debugging so it has a positive impact on quality as well as productivity.
The author uses VB.NET for coding examples. I personally prefer coding using C#, but I don't find it inconvenient that the code is in VB.NET.
I like the author's way of writing and the structure of the book. I like the way he describes the pros and cons for solutions and the influences on performance, productivity, scalability and extensibility. He also describes his own experiences (not just theory).
The book gives you guidelines (not only how but also why) so you can evaluate for yourself what will be the best solution for your situation (after all, every advantage has a disadvantage).
I found this book very helpful. It is a long time ago I read an ICT related book from beginning to end!
Rating: 5
Summary: Strongly recommended for .NET architects and developers
Comment: First of all this book is not about learning a new language syntax! The book is also not filled with code listings. Code fragments are just printed if they have added value in the book. The author provides code examples separately (provided with comments). So it is not a book that the fellow below is looking for (a book that teaches him how to contact SQL Server from Visual Basic .NET)
The book is focused on people that want to learn more about building (large scale) enterprise applications using the Microsoft .NET platform. I personally think this book is as well suited for architects as well as more code addicted people.
The author provides guidelines and patterns for developing and designing data centric N-tier enterprise applications using the .NET platform (using ADO.NET, COM+/.NET Component services, VB.NET/C#) and SQL Server (including T-SQL). Some subjects being discussed in this book: where to put business rules, how to implement these business rules, a new data access pattern, concurrency control, transactions etc.
The book also provides guidelines (not just on the end of the book!) for dealing with testing, error handling and preparing for debugging so it has a positive impact on quality as well as productivity.
The author uses VB.NET for coding examples. I personally prefer coding using C#, but I don't find it inconvenient that the code is in VB.NET.
I like the author's way of writing and the structure of the book. I like the way he describes the pros and cons for solutions and the influences on performance, productivity, scalability and extensibility. He also describes his own experiences (not just theory).
The book gives you guidelines (not only how but also why) so you can evaluate for yourself what will be the best solution for your situation (after all, every advantage has a disadvantage).
I found this book very helpful. It is a long time ago I read an ICT related book from beginning to end!
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book - Wrong Title!
Comment: This book should have been entitled "Design of Enterprise Systems with emphasis on Stored Procedures". It really has little to do with VisualBasic or .NET, and more to do with proper large application design in the OO/SQL era.
The author is obviously obsessed with Stored Procedures and makes a very good case for using them. In his systems, every application deals only with stored procedures and never performs SQL statements directly. Well, that's one way of doing it, but it introduces a whole lot of problems that were never really discussed too clearly.
The book is an excellent resource not just for the theory but for practical code snippets you can [take] and use in your next huge, huge enterprise application.
I say "huge, huge", because the sheer amount of overhead you will create in developing any applications based on this architecture is astounding. For anyone who started programming in COBOL, welcome to the world of Microsoft object-oriented programming! You will be spending 90% of your time worrying about coding things that have absolutely nothing to do with the application! Do we really want our application subject matter experts to have to worry about Shared Properties Managers, Object Construction, Threads, Object Pooling? Well, we have no choice if we go with .NET under Microsoft.
If you've stepped away from VisualBasic for a couple of years, welcome back to the new world of Microsoft's vision for a single language with many names. They call it VisualBasic now, but it's just C wearing a mask. Forget about rapid coding. Forget about type-independence. Forget about functions and subroutines. You're going to be spending most of your time memorizing the wall chart of COM objects and trying to learn yet another incarnation of VB that is as incompatible with the previous version as Java is with Fortran.
Don't believe me? OK, use Visual Studio.NET to write a simple application that looks up a record in a table and says "Hello World".
But I digress. The book's treatment of error handling, trace logging, concurrency locking, and other oft-neglected issues is very good and gives practical advice on how to do it. I will personally implement many of his suggestions. Many others I will pare down into a more manageable architecture for a company that does not have a multi-million dollar IPO worth of cash to burn through in the next 12 months.
His critical analysis at the end of each chapter of the proposal presented in that chapter, on the basis of performance, scalability, portability, maintainability, reusability, testability, debuggability, interoperability, and other "ities" was very clever. I will use that, as well as "codability", "readability", "longevity", and "learning curve" to help evaluate what language I want to use in my next application. It might show an MS OO language to be the worst choice. Who knows?
2 pet peeves:
1. "Preventive" is the correct word. There is no such thing as "Preventative", because we do not preventate things. Wonder how that slipped past the spell checker that SURELY every writer nowadays has.
2. "Errand" is running to the store to get something. "Errant" is something that has gone wrong. The entire sample application is built on a misuse of the word "Errand". But I forgive Jimmy because he is Swedish, and if I had to write a technical book in any of my 2nd languages, I would be hard pressed to get absolutely everything right.
Good job, Jimmy.
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Title: Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Core Reference) by Francesco Balena ISBN: 0735613753 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 17 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Microsoft ADO.NET (Core Reference) by David Sceppa ISBN: 0735614237 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming by Jeffrey Richter, Jeffrey Richter ISBN: 0735614229 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 23 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: .NET Enterprise Development in VB.NET: From Design to Deployment by Matt Reynolds, Karli Watson, Brian Patterson, Bill Forgey ISBN: 1861006179 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Building Web Solutions with ASP.NET and ADO.NET by Dino Esposito ISBN: 0735615780 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 06 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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