Oop: Building Reusable Components with Microsoft Visual Basic .Net

by John Alexander, John H. Alexander, Ken Spencer, et al.

Aimed at experienced developers, this primer on writing Visual Basic .NET components explains how to design and build applications from reusable, shared components and how to construct an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735613796
• ISBN13: 9780735613799
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 491 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.1" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

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. Simply a great a read.

Putting it all together

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.

#2 VB.NET book on my list

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

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". This book picks up where the other has left off. There are hundreds of ways to develop software, but Spencer, Eberhard and Alexander have done a great job illustrating one approach that is very practical for an enterprise enviroment. This book shows goes over many of the steps in software development and how to design the many tiers using .NET inheritance and reusing of code.My company name is Wharton Computer Consulting and we have been developing software for nearly a decade. I have read over a hundred technical books and have over 20 Microsoft Certifications. This book will allow me to spend less time going over how code should be done. During my technical reviews I will be able to point to chapters in this book on how it should be done.I have also taught at several university's and this will now be my recommended book for students interested in learning how to develop using .NET.

Great Intermediate Text

The book takes you through creating an OOP,n-tier application in ASP.NET (using VB) - data, business, and presentation layers. Security, remoting and web services are implemented as well. I say intermediate - the book is 450 pages. You could easly do a 450 page book on each topic, but I like how the authors used all of these techniques in one consise example.I wrote this partially to take issue with the last reviewer who called the code "junk". That is way too harsh. I have found the sample app quite usefull - a great introduction on .NET N-Tier design and programming. As a learning tool, this book succeeds. I don't believe it was written to be the last word on OOP, coding standards or app design. Or to be an advanced text.I can reccomend this to anyone armed with the basics of ASP.NET and VB.NET who wants to move into OOP concepts and N-Tier design in their web pages.