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Summary: Fantastic Resource...
Review: I recently rolled off of a project that was predominantly a Microsoft platform. Paul's book for me, was a great help from start to finish. The title is an extremely accurate description of how he presents valuable information to the reader.A pleasant addendum to Paul's book, is the fact that he builds and refers to a very real world enterprise application, using all of the components that he covers thoroughly: VB, MTS, IIS, MSSQL, and XML. For example, Chapter 7 covers the "Class Manager Library" which the author builds in great detail. He covers all components with equal committment, and then follows it up with great instruction on how to take it to the web in Chap. 12. Cheers to Tindall for writing a succinct and well thought out book that has an extremely honest title, and jeers to those who attempt to lead you to buy their book via a misleading market buzzwords and fluff. Thanks for the honest picture - it helped me get a great project review!
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Summary: Great book for advanced developers
Review: If you are a developer who already knows the basics and has gone through the simple examples provided in the documentation and teaching books, then this book is for you for an advanced exposition of the subject. You will also get a nice feeling reading the code (the book has a good amount of it) which works, since the author has actually implemented it in a production environment.
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Summary: Great book for advanced developers
Review: If you are a developer who already knows the basics and has gone through the simple examples provided in the documentation and teaching books, then this book is for you for an advanced exposition of the subject. You will also get a nice feeling reading the code (the book has a good amount of it) which works, since the author has actually implemented it in a production environment.
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Summary: Topical N-Tier Development
Review: The book covers vb-object to db-tables mapping. The download code for this is not in sync with the book on areas such as ClassManager/Lib and on the DataManager GetObject (set DataManager ClassDef.DatabaseName), some Interface Methods too, an (optional?) XML parameter. With no installation Readme or Errata file this could be overcome by the author (please) update the downloadable code. Although Session Variables (and ActiveX Controls)are used in places there is no talk of their security limits. Otherwise an excellent book!
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Summary: Interesting concepts, many missing details, sloppy
Review: This book is aimed at developers already advanced in VB, COM, MTS, and SQL. The author presents an interesting generic framework for implementing persistent distributed objects using Microsoft technologies. Most unfortunately, many details are missing from the example code, some of it depends on code not presented until future chapters or at all, and the downloadable code does not match what is presented in the book. Even within the book itself, some of the UML class models don't match what is described in the text. The concepts of the framework were useful to me, especially the generic database classes, but I expect more attention to detail in a technical book.
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Summary: Interesting concepts, many missing details, sloppy
Review: This book is aimed at developers already advanced in VB, COM, MTS, and SQL. The author presents an interesting generic framework for implementing persistent distributed objects using Microsoft technologies. Most unfortunately, many details are missing from the example code, some of it depends on code not presented until future chapters or at all, and the downloadable code does not match what is presented in the book. Even within the book itself, some of the UML class models don't match what is described in the text. The concepts of the framework were useful to me, especially the generic database classes, but I expect more attention to detail in a technical book.
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