Message from Dean - May 8th 2007

I am currently testing out a new version of the APF Bridge Component - If you notice any errors within this demo store please drop me a line.

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2768
EAN: 9780735626096
ISBN: 073562609X
Label: Microsoft Press
Manufacturer: Microsoft Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: October 15, 2008
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Studio: Microsoft Press

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
To deliver the right solutions for increasingly complex enterprise and user requirements, you need vision. You need guidance. You need to apply the patterns and practices that by design create explicit outcomes for often-implicit challenges. In this book, you ll take a structured, realistic approach to resolving software complexity that places architectural integrity at its core. The authors share their extensive, real-world experience with enterprise and service-oriented development to illuminate the patterns, principles, and techniques for producing more-effective solutions, including the modeling techniques that ensure your architecture fully and explicitly addresses user requirements. They deftly cover essential concepts (UML, design patterns), the core system (business, services, data access, and presentation layers), and specific tools, including Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Visual Studio(r) and they provide code samples and expert insights you can apply right away to your own .NET-based enterprise solutions.




Rating: - Great book
I'm in agreeance with most of the other reviews. I wanted to give this a 5 but I agree with the other 4 star that what prevents me from giving a 5th star is the lack of relevant examples. This will largely be a preference of the person purchasing the book.

The books states early to look at a group effort of some Northwind example but for me I like to have working samples as I go through a book. As I've said in other reviews, that's the point of me spending money on a book. We are limited on time and are looking for a go to where every thing is in one place and is easy to follow along.

The book, even without great sample code is well written and easy to identify with. I've been looking for a book like this for 2 years. Great work and would recommend it to any software developer looking to make themselves better.

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Rating: - Excellent reference for an architect
For a long time I have been searching for a good & easily understandable book on application architectures & patterns and finally my search ended with this book.
I have read P of EAA Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Addison-Wesley Signature Series) before but this book provides good context and examples around each of the patterns mentioned in P of EAA.
couple of -ves I see in this book are,
1) there's no clear-cut examples for certain concepts that authors are trying to make in the book (e.g. application logic vs. business logic)
2) Although it provides good overview of all patterns including the ones related to yesterday's architecture (e.g Transaction script) I think more info, examples, best practices should have been provided on patterns more relevant to today's Enterprise applications (e.g. domain model)

Never-the-less I would recommend every architect to keep this in their reference library.

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Rating: - If you want to know the current .NET architectural trends, this is a must read
It is a misconception that architecture is a fully understood field. Like the rest of us in the relatively young discipline of software development, architects are making their way along with rules of thumb, buzzwords and trends, too, and doing their best to tie them all together.

Microsoft has always been a bit lacking when it comes to providing guidance for developing complex software. The alt.net crowd promised to fill in this lacuna, and even promoted itself in terms of filling in the blanks that Microsoft leaves in its technology offerings. However the results have been, I think, that the contemporary architect simply has more pieces to try to put together, and even more things to try to figure out.

Dino Esposito, in "Architecting Applications for the Enterprise", tries to make sense of this technical jigsaw puzzle by building on top of the core architectural concepts of layering and decoupling applications. He then takes these principles forward by seeing ... Read More

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Rating: - Nice book, here is the Table of Contents
This book seemed really promising from the title and mainly its author (Dino Esposito), who is one of the best .NET writers out there. It took me a while to buy it though, because for weeks I tried in vain to find its table of contents, to know exactly what I was buying. Having failed at finding one, I decided to just take a chance and buy it anyway, and I don't regret, it is a good book.

I would say the target audience is intermediate to senior developers who are getting into software architecture, or architects who work on a database-centric way and want to get an update to the current buzzwords, such as domain model pattern, repositories, services, AOP, POCO, OR/M, DDD etc. This book does not try to be a definitive source on any of those topics, but more like an introduction and a reference; the authors make a good job at pointing for resources for those who want to get more dense information.

Books like Martin Fowler's "Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture", ... Read More

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Rating: - Great book overall
I wish my team would read this book. Too many developers in the workforce right now do not understand these principles, and should.

The book does a great job of putting the whole package together and how to implement each layer.

I would write a lot more if I was not so busy. I can't say enough.

Who should get this? Anyone that has already learned the fundumentals of developing in .NET.

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