Rating: 
Summary: Don't waste your money or time.
Review: This book not only wasted my time but resulted in utter frustration. I read over half of the book before returning it for a refund. This book is a bad mark in the Wrox name. The book it self is bloated repeating things like `what we are going to cover in this chapter' multiple times in the chapter. The easy issues are covered in wasteful detail and the difficult issues that you would expect to find in this book are not covered at all. He spent an entire chapter on how to use an object that exposes properties and methods. Hello! VB 101? The technical content also leaves much to be desired. I believe that he must not have spent much time developing in the real world because he suggests functionality like an undelete as part of every object. Most objects I know of rarely use delete let alone a thick client concept like an undelete. I believe that his architecture would not scale and perform like a hog. I think he would hit the ASP threading limit with 50 customers on one of his applications. (Not that I saw that issue mentioned in the book). He uses collections in a distributed application and seems to load all of the data for every search. When he got to the point to explain how to throttle the data for a search he skipped it indicating it was an easy exercise. I am not usually this critical of any book and I respect Mr. Moniz for his work and ideas but I think this one will lead developers astray.
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