Net Enterprise Development in VB.NET: From Design to Deployment

by Matt Reynolds, Brian Patterson, Karli Watson

Packed with practical solutions to your enterprise development problems, this book should take your application development to a new level. You can apply the lessons you learn from the book to your... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861006179
• ISBN13: 9781861006172
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Length: 750 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Consume this book

I have learned more from this book relative to real world usage of VB.NET than from all the others I have purchased. Pluses: The authors assume a certain level of expertise and do not coddle you. Examples are more challenging than you will find in most texts. As an example of salient techniques in enterprise development this book is excellent.Minuses: I learned as much from this book from what the authors omitted as I did from what they included. There are huge issues/bugs which you are left to work through by yourself. However this is not necessarilly a bad thing. Past the 8th chapter of the book the authors (or maybe the editors) seem to lose interest and the level of problems increase dramaticallly. e.g if you don't understand the concept of custom attributes in chapter 9 you can get hung up for an eternity until you notice that the authors explain it 65 page later. I beg to differ with the previous British reviewer on a few points most significantly: although there is a lot of great code in the "web enterprise objects" library it's hardly production quality. Additionally the assertion that this code can supplant 80% of the project coding effort is blatantly false. My thought is, with some tweaking, it could offset 25-30% of the coding effort and for this it would be well worthwhile.All in all this is an excellent work. Please view my negative reactions only as anindicator of how valuable I found this book.

This book could change your life!

I am a VB developer in the process of making the huge leap from VB/VBA and Client/Server to VB.Net/C#.Net and ASP.Net. As those of you who are doing the same will realise by now, this is no mean feat!Moreover, an ecconomic downturn is upon us and promotion prospects/job interviews/offers are very thin on the ground.Like many, I am banking on my new found .Net knowledge to provide me with a competitive edge and a good living in the future. Question is, how best to learn/implement .NET and become bi-lingual in C# and VB?I already have devoured 4 Wrox (huge) .Net books and 3 (equally huge) SAMS .Net Books. In their way, each has some value but I have still struggled to be able to 'Put it all together' in .Net - Until I saw the light!.NET Enterprise Development is Awesome! (And small!)The book kicks off in spectacular style by providing a 'Business Object Generator' programming tool called the 'Wrox Enterprise Objects' tool (WEO). This (n-tier, Database Access) tool is the work of Database/Programming Guru's and is offered to mere mortals for the price of a book!As soon as you read this review my friend, buy the book, implement the tool and your future in the .Net world is assured!I swear that if the the WEO were sold as a commercial tool it could cost thousands of dollars and would save hundreds of thousands of dollars in development time.Surely, Wrox have got this offering upside down! They are selling a book and giving away the Software Engineering Tool. They could have sold the Tool (for big bucks!) and gave away the book as a 'manual'!My heart felt advice is to take full advantage of their generosity NOW! (and before they read this review).The whole book is brilliant, the WEO is just for starters.Enough said.Enjoy...