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

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

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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: This is the worst book I've ever read
Review: Although some customer here have given this book a 5-star evaluation, I don't agree with them. In my opinion, this book is one of the worst books I've read. Actually, most of books from Wrox press is very bad, especially not good for beginners.

If you want to make yourself confusing with the new .Net technology, read this book. Otherwise, find some other book such as Sams Teach Yourself series books.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This book could change your life!
Review: 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...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This book could change your life!
Review: 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...

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Generous at 3 stars
Review: I found the language in this book very difficult to follow. The WEO code is good, but following the examples in the book is a challenge. It is obviuos the book was put together quickly and that it is aimed at expert developers, who probably don't need a book like this. The downloadable code does not track the book examples very well. Only the final example in each 2 to 3 chapter group is included, the intermediate examples aimed at getting you familiar with the material are not included and expletives on buttons in the download code is so unprofessional.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Consume this book
Review: 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.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: An enraging book
Review: I was forced to buy this book as a textbook for a .NET course and lemme just say it was awful. I am relatively certain that the author is dyslexic. You have to read 3 pages then go back 2 then read anther 3 and go back 2 in order to follow this book at all. During the course of a day i threw this book across my room at least 5 times. In the end I literally took a baseball bat and smashed the hell out of this book, launching it across the room until it was in pieces. Anyone who buys this book can look forward to the same wish. Maybe you'll be able to restrain yourself from doing it.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: why make a difficult subject even harder?
Review: I was looking for a good book on enterprise development in preparation for my first "big" enterprise project, so I got this book in the hope that I would learn something worthwhile.
Having already been involved in the development of stand-alone applications over the years, I was comfortable with the basics.
My, was I disappointed! The authors obviously knew what they were doing, but how to make themselves understood by mere mortals like myself was their greatest problem. It did not
take me long to begin to wonder why I could easily follow Fransesco Balena's advanced writings, and I could not follow these authors'. Tried as I may I could not get past the
first two chapters or so, before I looked for some other things to do.
This is the second book by Matt Reynold's that I have bought (the other was Beginning E-commerce with VB, MTS and ASP), and I have been unhappy with both books. I don't think I
will be going near his books anytime in the future.
If you really want to learn something about enterprise development, I suggest you scour Microsoft's MSDN website, or look for a more responsible book. This website has tons of lists you could also check out. This one is a waste of precious time.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: why make a difficult subject even harder?
Review: I was looking for a good book on enterprise development in preparation for my first "big" enterprise project, so I got this book in the hope that I would learn something worthwhile.
Having already been involved in the development of stand-alone applications over the years, I was comfortable with the basics.
My, was I disappointed! The authors obviously knew what they were doing, but how to make themselves understood by mere mortals like myself was their greatest problem. It did not
take me long to begin to wonder why I could easily follow Fransesco Balena's advanced writings, and I could not follow these authors'. Tried as I may I could not get past the
first two chapters or so, before I looked for some other things to do.
This is the second book by Matt Reynold's that I have bought (the other was Beginning E-commerce with VB, MTS and ASP), and I have been unhappy with both books. I don't think I
will be going near his books anytime in the future.
If you really want to learn something about enterprise development, I suggest you scour Microsoft's MSDN website, or look for a more responsible book. This website has tons of lists you could also check out. This one is a waste of precious time.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: The book was ok but not good enough to reccomend
Review: I wish that someone would rewrite this book because the idea that the authors had was great.
The book was hard to follow; I found myself going back numerous times to recheck things. The enterprise objects framework was very advanced and well coded in a lot of areas, but I don't like the way that it handled retrieving data from a data base. So as I learned some good things from this book it was harder to learn than it should have been. One thing that I love about this book is that they give you the source for their object builder tool. I don't use the tool. I have my own but it's nice to see them giving theirs away.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: What about deployment?!
Review: There are a zillion books about .NET. I was hoping this one would cover deployment as the title promises. DON'T BE FOOLED!
Where is the information about Strong Naming, about how to get things into the GAC, about the line item tools like sn.exe, gacutil.exe, resgen.exe, al.exe (come on!)
What about the classes in AssemblyInfo.vb ??

No wonder only two of the authors put their faces on it. POOR


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