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.
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Rating: - Exactly What I Was Looking For
When I decided to start reading this book, I was hoping to expand my knowledge of N-Tier programming to the point where I could develop my own business framework (not necessarily built on CSLA.NET) that was flexible and reusable across various solutions (Web, Windows, *WPF, *Silverlight,etc). I was not disappointed.
The author begins the book with a brief explanation on architectures (physical vs logical) and also discuss high level requirements for what a business framework needs (chapters ... Read More
Rating: - Good but not gread
A number of other reviewers have already covered this book well so I will just add a few comments.
This book is not general purpose. It only covers Mr. Lhotka's Csla framework. While that framework is interesting and fairly useful it should not be considered 'ready to use' for many real world projects. User authorization and data validation are both too limited for general use. And, in a manner similar to the .NET framework itself, Csla often causes problems by handling things a bit too ... Read More
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Rating: - Somehow outdated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 Sounds like the old vb6 bo book, rather outdated.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 architecture. ... 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....
- Exactly What I Was Looking For
- Good but not gread
- Somehow outdated
- Very frustrating
