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Summary: Simply Awesome!!
Review: Finally a book that not only explains the theory and design decisions behind putting together a framework, but also supplies a fully functioning framework for you to start with. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!On a side note... the editor should be flogged because of the numerous grammatical errors.
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Summary: Simply Awesome!!
Review: Finally a book that not only explains the theory and design decisions behind putting together a framework, but also supplies a fully functioning framework for you to start with. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! On a side note... the editor should be flogged because of the numerous grammatical errors.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: This book really sheds light on many of the Classic Gang of Four Design Patterns and provides real world, meaningful examples to demonstrate them.
If you have ever wanted to know how to use proper object oriented techniques in .NET, this book is for you.
The book provides some very interesting approaches on extensible, practicle, and reusable code, and the samples are right on par with the typical functionality that an application framework should provide.
It is also a very clean and easy to read book, and is organized very well.
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Summary: Like an early Eclipse
Review: You know, I was going through this book for several chapters before it struck me. Xin Chen has provided us with something analogous to Eclipse. But whereas Eclipse is coded in Java, and is meant for Java developers, he has given us a corresponding framework in .NET! Perhaps unwittingly, for the book's index has no entry for Eclipse. I bring this up because more of you should be familiar with Eclipse, even if you are a .NET programmer and have never actually used Eclipse. Whereas Chen's Simplified Application Framework is likely to be totally new to you. But you should be aware that Eclipse has garnered very favourable mindshare and usage in the Java community. In Java, it provides a real life validation of the entire framework approach. Which is encouraging here. For surely .NET needs a similar framework atop it. So the conceptual basis for this book is secure. So how is the SAF? From the book's description, it seems not to have as rich a feature set as Eclipse. But IBM spent several $million in its development, before throwing it to open source. Whereupon, many other programmers also built it up. For SAF, it is still early days. SAF seems to be mostly (entirely?) Chen's own effort. Very commendable for one person.
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