Rockford Lhotka started writing his Business Objects books in 1996, and over the years, hes become one of the worlds foremost authorities on building distributed object-oriented systems. His industry-standard VB .NET Business Objects book not only addresses changes in .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005, but also reflects substantial enhancements and improvements to the CSLA .NET Framework and how it can be used to create enterprise-level .NET applications.
Expert C# Business Objects is for developers who want to see Lhotkas ideas applied in the C# idiom. The book takes you from an opening discussion of logical architectures to detailed n-tier deployment options using the CSLA .NET Framework.
The depth of Rockfords thinking now influences developers across language boundaries. With this book, you can learn directly from the expert whose framework has become universally accepted and respected.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Nice work
A good written book, it's a step by step trip in the author's mind: from idea through design to coding of his framework. You may not agree with all choices (such as heavy reflection use) but you always know why he did. A good start point to build your own businnes objects and a rich bag for your developer's toolbox.
Rating: - Somehow outdated
The book itself is somehow disappointing. Sounds like the old vb6 bo book, rather outdated.
The main concept involved as a guideline on design is the fat table module object arbitrarily called business objects by the author, when the market is more oriented to model domains. Why should we choose fat objects instead of other solutions? It is not discussed on the book.
A big issue is the way the book is written. He assumes you are a vb6 person. The author is not fully aware of the asp.net ... Read More
Rating: - Very frustrating
Author spends too much time in theory and less time showing real examples. Author wants you to down load code and spends time discussing bits and pieces of each section. Very, very, very steep learning curve. Not a good investment - wish I could find a CSLA book that teaches you step by step....
Rating: - GOOD INFORMATION, ARCHITECTURE SO/SO
This book has a very good discussion of frameworks and includes the details of the CSLA (Component Scalable Logical Architecture) framework. However, I don't believe the book is worthwhile for the discussion of frameworks alone. If you're required to use CSLA, then this is the book for you.
I give the book three stars because its contents can't be separated from the design of CSLA. The problem with CSLA is the layers. The use of "fat", fully encapsulated business objects has fallen out of ... Read More
Rating: - The best of the best
This is an exceptional book. It provides both the examples of how-to use the framework and how it is built. This internal view of the framework provides invaluable insight into the internal workings of reflection and gives real world perspectives to using objects consistently in a distributed architechture. I like the book!
- Somehow outdated
- Very frustrating
- GOOD INFORMATION, ARCHITECTURE SO/SO
- The best of the best
