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¿Enterprise Development with Visual Studio .NET, UML, and MSF¿ is for programmers dealing with or those that have an interest in developing Enterprise .NET solutions. It will guide readers through all aspects of Enterprise modeling, from design considerations and project management design processes to modeling a .NET solution using UML. In todaythe need for complex solutions designed the right way and delivered on time is a success factor for the entire Enterprise. ¿Enterprise Development with Visual Studio .NET, UML, and MSF¿ will help readers succeed by providing them with guides and examples that they can use in their own .NET projects. It will cover the Microsoft Solutions Framework and how to benefit from this process when designing. Programmers can also use this book as a reference or as a step-by-step guide for creating Enterprise solutions the right way with design processes, UML, .NET Framework, and C# and VB .NET. About the Author Carsten Thomsen is a Microsoft MVP, recognition he received in August 1999. He lives in his native Denmark and currently holds the MCSE and MCSD certifications. Carsten has been programming in Visual Basic for almost 10 years, with a specialization in data access. However, with the advent of Visual Basic .NET and, more important, Visual Studio .NET, he has concentrated on two programming languages, C# and Visual Basic .NET¿staying focused with regard to data access from these two programming languages. John Erik Hansen is a freelance consultant specializing in project management (MSF) and business analysis. He has 8 years of experience working as a project manager, consultant, Microsoft CTEC Trainer, business analyst, and programmer (Data Warehousing, eProcurement, Active Server Pages (ASP), Visual Basic, .NET). Lately John has been working as a consultant doing projects all over Europe. He lives with his girlfriend Karen in Odense, Denmark. He currently holds the Microsoft MCSD and Rational Rose certifications. John enjoys traveling and is a passionate soccer fan and squash player. See more about John at this address: http://www.project2.dk.
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Enterprise Development with Visual Studio .NET, UML, and MSF is for programmers dealing with or those that have an interest in developing Enterprise .NET solutions. It will guide readers through all aspects of Enterprise modeling, from design considerations and project management design processes to modeling a .NET solution using UML.
In today's IT world the need for complex solutions designed the right way and delivered on time is a success factor for the entire Enterprise. Enterprise Development with Visual Studio .NET, UML, and MSF will help readers succeed by providing them with guides and examples that they can use in their own .NET projects. It will cover the Microsoft Solutions Framework and how to benefit from this process when designing. Programmers can also use this book as a reference or as a step-by-step guide for creating Enterprise solutions the right way with design processes, UML, .NET Framework, and C# and VB .NET. |
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| 02-25-06 | 5 | 1\1 |
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Finally, a book that covers software design from a .NET developer perspective.
While the book make an extensive use of Microsoft tools (Visual Studio and Visio), the authors offer an uncompromising and clear material. Clearly written for seasoned developers, the books still offers novice programers a good primer on OO programing. (Review Data Last Updated: 2007-09-07 11:10:12 EST)
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Finally, a book that covers software design from a .NET developer perspective.
While the book make an extensive use of Microsoft tools (Visual Studio and Visio), the authors offer an uncompromising and clear material. Clearly written for seasoned developers, the books still offers novice programers a good primer on OO programing. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-10-07 10:44:27 EST)
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| 02-24-06 | 5 | 1\1 |
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Finally, a book that covers software design from a .NET developer perspective.
While the book make an extensive use of Microsoft tools (Visual Studio and Visio), the authors offer an uncompromising and clear material. Clearly written for seasoned developers, the books still offers novice programers a good primer on OO programing. (Review Data Last Updated: 2007-04-12 12:36:25 EST)
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| 08-18-05 | 5 | 1\6 |
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I learned a lot of .NET and UML technology in this book.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-02-14 08:46:36 EST)
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| 12-13-04 | 3 | 12\14 |
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Bought this book hoping it was a good guide to developing enterprise applications in VS.Net with UML (visio); man was I wrong. If you have the slightest idea of what UML is, and you know your way around VS.Net, go somewhere else. It just scratches the surface of a lot of things and you have probably read this somewhere else. But, the reason for the three stars is that if you are new to VS.Net, this is actually a good book. It has a lot of heuristics and guidelines for a rookie developer, on how to plan you project, protect your code and deploy your applications. Not exactly what I was looking for.
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| 12-12-04 | 3 | 10\12 |
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Bought this book hoping it was a good guide to developing enterprise applications in VS.Net with UML (visio); man was I wrong. If you have the slightest idea of what UML is, and you know your way around VS.Net, go somewhere else. It just scratches the surface of a lot of things and you have probably read this somewhere else. But, the reason for the three stars is that if you are new to VS.Net, this is actually a good book. It has a lot of heuristics and guidelines for a rookie developer, on how to plan you project, protect your code and deploy your applications. Not exactly what I was looking for.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2006-07-05 12:56:16 EST)
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| 10-22-04 | 5 | 12\13 |
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I have been working with .Net for almost 2 years now. This book is a good companion to enhance your over-all skills as a .Net developer. It really helps to see how you would use UML and MSF to complement your .Net coding skills. There are areas of this book that tends to drag (really, we didn't need the comparison to Rational XDE nor did we realy need to cover Visual Source Safe).
What I would like to have seen is actual documents that would be produced when going through the life cycle as described in section six - MSF (this is where a lot of books fall short). But sections 1 - 4 (with the exception perhaps of VSS) are real gems. Definitely worth the price of the book. Good job John & Carsten! (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-02-14 08:46:36 EST)
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| 10-21-04 | 5 | 11\12 |
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I have been working with .Net for almost 2 years now. This book is a good companion to enhance your over-all skills as a .Net developer. It really helps to see how you would use UML and MSF to complement your .Net coding skills. There are areas of this book that tends to drag (really, we didn't need the comparison to Rational XDE nor did we realy need to cover Visual Source Safe).
What I would like to have seen is actual documents that would be produced when going through the life cycle as described in section six - MSF (this is where a lot of books fall short). But sections 1 - 4 (with the exception perhaps of VSS) are real gems. Definitely worth the price of the book. Good job John & Carsten! (Review Data Last Updated: 2006-07-05 12:56:16 EST)
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| 10-20-04 | 5 | 2\6 |
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You want a book, a comprehensive book about vs.net enterprise development? Here it is, this is the one book you want to buy. I can't say it covers everything but it does provide a lot of answers and overview if your dev teams are working with enterprise dev in vs.net. Do check out this book as it is remarkable value which you normally only find in 2-3 books and its very well written.
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| 10-19-04 | 5 | 2\5 |
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You want a book, a comprehensive book about vs.net enterprise development? Here it is, this is the one book you want to buy. I can't say it covers everything but it does provide a lot of answers and overview if your dev teams are working with enterprise dev in vs.net. Do check out this book as it is remarkable value which you normally only find in 2-3 books and its very well written.
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| 10-15-04 | 5 | 2\8 |
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Info, info, info! The book is packed with info for the enterprise dev team. And its good info from page 1 right until the end. If i have to pick a favourite section it would have to be the enterprise tools section as it really gave our team a boost in understanding the enterprise architect tools in just a few weeks. We would have have spent much mcuh longer obtaining this info in other ways.
I hope you the author is ready for the next version of visual studio. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-02-14 08:46:36 EST)
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| 07-19-04 | 5 | 2\3 |
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with so many enterprise books out there it's refreshing to see one that actually does what it says on the tin: educate/teach you how to work with various tools and methods on enterprise projects. i haven't seen any other books make visio and uml so easy to learn nor have i found other books with as detailed and yet easy to learn msf info. a truly good book
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| 07-15-04 | 4 | 9\11 |
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For developers on a Microsoft platform, Microsoft has offered Visual Studio as its flagship development environment. A very sophisticated package. Naturally, as .NET was fleshed out, VS has been upgraded to help you program in that framework. The authors accordingly go into reams of detail, with numerous screen captures, showing what VS.NET can do for you.
They also cover how VS can be integrated with UML. So that, as a very nifty feature, VS can autogenerate code given as input a set of UML diagrams. To some of you, it will be a big timesaver, and it lets you concentrate on writing the key parts of your code, not boilerplate. Of course, different developers will have different needs, but clearly some of you will appreciate this UML ability. The authors also talk about using Microsoft Solutions Framework as a project design framework. Much here is not instrinsically tied to .NET or even Microsoft. This part of the book has a lot of high level jargon. The ideas seem clear enough. But so does a lot of other ideas about project design and management. There is a big impedance mismatch between this chapter and the rest of the book. Perhaps the chapter could have been expanded into a book of its own? (Review Data Last Updated: 2006-07-05 12:56:16 EST)
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| 07-12-04 | 5 | 3\7 |
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It is rare that you come across a book that helps you with so many issues as this book does. We have a large library in our company and I make regular use of many of them. I do find that when speaking of .Net and enterprise development there is not a lot of books book covering this topic. Sure there are many books that does a good job of covering some of the areas but what we wanted was a book that took us from start till finish and this book does. I read the book cover to cover and then I ordered an extra copy that subsequently has been read by our project managers and various developers. There's a wealth of information in this book and if you follow the MSF guidelines (outlined in chapter 20) for creating successful software projects and at the same time use the right tools (which the authors do a great job of explaining) then you have the odds on your side.
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| 07-11-04 | 2 | 2\8 |
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I found Developing .NET Enterprise Applications book better than this one.
I personally bought the book for MSF and authors have let me down on this topic. They have only small description of definitions and nothing explained from applications point of view. All textual. Typical MSDN documetation. On top of that, I noticed graphics are copy and paste from Microsoft documetation. (Review Data Last Updated: 2006-07-05 12:56:16 EST)
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| 07-09-04 | 5 | 6\7 |
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I bought this book some 3 weeks ago and expected to use it as a reference book but after reading chapters 1 through 4 I couldn't stop reading. It is a real pleasure reading about topics that interest you but more so when the writing is as smooth as the authors have made it.
The main reason I bought the book was the UML and Visio bits and they're excellent but after reading about enterprise templates I feel that I'm sufficiently qualified to introduce this is my department, great job. (Review Data Last Updated: 2006-06-24 10:04:15 EST)
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| 07-06-04 | 5 | 3\5 |
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I work for a large corporation in Sweden and we have been looking for books on this particular topic and now there is one covering almosr all of the enterprise segment of .net development. I wish it had included more on patterns but there's already enough information in the book to warrant the price tag and our 5 star rating.
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| 06-20-04 | 5 | 4\6 |
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I read this book before taking the MSF practitioner exam and it's one of my best MSF sources. Another thing I like about the book is that this book starts where most .NET books stops; at the entrance to enterprise development. Finally a book not taking the easy way of teaching .NET development. It guides you thoroughly into the world of enterprise projects. Especially I like the way enterprise templates are described using exercises. Do get this book if you want a guide and a reference to enterprise development using .NET.
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| 06-18-04 | 5 | 5\6 |
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It must have taken quite some time to get all the information in this book together. A number of topics covered can be found in msdn but there's also plenty of other enterprise relevant information like msf and uml. I like the way the book is written and where the information overlaps the sometimes tedious coverage in msdn the authors present the information in an intuitive way and with many extras. One extra is the way you manually unbind a vs .net project from vss, excellent.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2006-06-24 10:04:15 EST)
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| 06-11-04 | 5 | 5\5 |
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This book was a pre-order but I'm very very happy. The authors give me exactly what i want, more UML, more Visio, more very detailed information about everything. Examples, editing the proj files (csproj and vbproj) with notepad to change source control, build orders, etc. Likewise, the editing of the proj.webinfo file resolved a major headache for me. Another great example was strong naming. Good information on a somewhat arcane topic and an excellent link to MSDN. I've already used the book 2-3 times this week to resolve real world issues.
The only thing i would have liked more would be more of an emphasis on Design Patterns along with the UML. The discussion of Rational XDE was also great!! I'm buying more of this book for staff and recommending it to fellow architects. (Review Data Last Updated: 2006-06-24 10:04:15 EST)
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| 06-10-04 | 5 | 5\8 |
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This must be the very first true book about enterprise development with .Net, and I love it.
Staring off with chapter 1, you really get a feel for what the book is about. Chapters 2, 3, 4 and 5 gently introduces you to msf and uml and leads up to chapter 6 in which the book takes off with some simple examples. chapter 7 could have been placed before chapter 6, but it's okay where it is as it is about uml maintenance. Chapters 8,9 and 10 are excellent introductions (and more than that) to enterprise project templates; some very nice writing here. Chapters 11, 12, 13 and 14 covers most of the enterprise vs .net tools, with the vss chapter and chapter 12 being the best, and chapter 15 contains some great coverage of .net deployment. Chapters 16 and 17 are hands on chapters and they truly build on the information presented previously in the book, excellent. Chapters 18 and 19 are a bit poor in that they don't really introduce that much information but I guess that if you are looking for alternatives to Visio uml modelling they give you something to work with (Rational xde). Chapter 20 is a really nice "summary" of msf 3.0 and if you are new to msf this chapter will get you op to speed in no time. Overall this book contains so much information that it is hard to see why you would not want to read it. Oh, and the appendix is a great way of finding information related to this book. (Review Data Last Updated: 2006-06-24 10:04:15 EST)
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| 06-10-04 | 2 | 2\8 |
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I preordered it months ago and after a long wait I finally got it. It is not the book I wanted based on the contents and title promised. You many see familiar things if you have already digged MSDN documentation.
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| 06-06-04 | 5 | 2\3 |
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I've got to write a review about this book and it is simply fantastic. There is so much good information in it, it is unbelievable. Take the UML bits which starts with some introductory chapters and then builds on these and the same can be said about MSF (I am totally new to MSF and not an expert on UML). With the enterprise project chapters and the hands-on chapters this is truly a book that can be picked up by most members of a development organization (I am a team lead / project manager). There is information in this book that can be used to educate the team members and yet you can use the book as a very good reference guide. The enterprise tool chapters are good canfidates for the latter. All in all a fantastic book.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2006-06-24 10:04:15 EST)
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