Enterprise Development with Visual Studio .Net, Uml, and Msf

by Carsten Thomsen and John Erik Hansen

TODAY, DEVELOPERS ARE continuously being overloaded with new technologies, standards, and tools, which are all being developed to fulfill customer requirements. This puts tough challenges on developers who need to produce modern software, whether it is shrink-wrapped software, enterprise applications, or part of systems integration. Therefore, large vendors like Microsoft put a lot of effort into describing best practices and guidelines for using...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590590422
• ISBN13: 9781590590423
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 984 Pages
• Weight: 3.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 7.0" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

One of the best software design book

Finally, a book that covers software design from a .NET developer perspective. While the book make an extensive use of Microsoft tools (Visual Studio and Visio), the authors offer an uncompromising and clear material. Clearly written for seasoned developers, the books still offers novice programers a good primer on OO programing.

Good companion to have after you have mastered VB/Net or C#

I have been working with .Net for almost 2 years now. This book is a good companion to enhance your over-all skills as a .Net developer. It really helps to see how you would use UML and MSF to complement your .Net coding skills. There are areas of this book that tends to drag (really, we didn't need the comparison to Rational XDE nor did we realy need to cover Visual Source Safe). What I would like to have seen is actual documents that would be produced when going through the life cycle as described in section six - MSF (this is where a lot of books fall short). But sections 1 - 4 (with the exception perhaps of VSS) are real gems. Definitely worth the price of the book. Good job John & Carsten!

Yes this is the book

I bought this book some 3 weeks ago and expected to use it as a reference book but after reading chapters 1 through 4 I couldn't stop reading. It is a real pleasure reading about topics that interest you but more so when the writing is as smooth as the authors have made it.The main reason I bought the book was the UML and Visio bits and they're excellent but after reading about enterprise templates I feel that I'm sufficiently qualified to introduce this is my department, great job.

Hard work

It must have taken quite some time to get all the information in this book together. A number of topics covered can be found in msdn but there's also plenty of other enterprise relevant information like msf and uml. I like the way the book is written and where the information overlaps the sometimes tedious coverage in msdn the authors present the information in an intuitive way and with many extras. One extra is the way you manually unbind a vs .net project from vss, excellent.

Worth the wait -- Digs Deep

This book was a pre-order but I'm very very happy. The authors give me exactly what i want, more UML, more Visio, more very detailed information about everything. Examples, editing the proj files (csproj and vbproj) with notepad to change source control, build orders, etc. Likewise, the editing of the proj.webinfo file resolved a major headache for me. Another great example was strong naming. Good information on a somewhat arcane topic and an excellent link to MSDN. I've already used the book 2-3 times this week to resolve real world issues. The only thing i would have liked more would be more of an emphasis on Design Patterns along with the UML. The discussion of Rational XDE was also great!! I'm buying more of this book for staff and recommending it to fellow architects.