Developing .NET Enterprise Applications

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Summary: Book concepts are good, Application is NOT Compilable!
Review: Don't buy this book unless you want to spend hours trying to put text files into a solution/project structure. The concepts are are good but the project source is given in the form of several text files which doesn't make sense. It tries to build a application called an IssueTracker which I couldn't figure out how to compile let alone deploy. Forget this book. If the book just had a compilable solution it might have made sense.

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Summary: Questionable treatment of object/relational mapping and
Review: First, I agree with the other reviewer who mentioned the lack of complete, runnable source code as the most serious failing of this book. This is completely unacceptable. A number of folks have logged into the publisher's web site and complained about this.

Regarding the content and explanations of concepts. I'd say, "not terrible". But I did not like the author's approach to object relational mapping. Make everything a stored procedure? Hmmm controversial, to say the least.

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Summary: Covers all ends of development
Review: I found this book to be pretty helpful with clear concepts and clear explainations. I'm building business software and was able to use most of the concepts right away - especially the section on building web apps. There's a lot of source code that comes with the book, and I found the necessary project files on the publisher's website. Also, some basic .NET and C# knowledge is required as this isn't a beginner's book.