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Summary: Excellent book that precurses terrible applications.
Review: A clear and concise method of deploying rock solid VB6 business objects. An excellent follow up to his VB6 Business Objects book. Rocky has done an excellent job explaining and demonstrating how to design and develop distributed VB objects. I have applied the author's methods on a number of applications. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: 5 Star performance
Review: A clear and concise method of deploying rock solid VB6 business objects. An excellent follow up to his VB6 Business Objects book. Rocky has done an excellent job explaining and demonstrating how to design and develop distributed VB objects. I have applied the author's methods on a number of applications. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Good book, but focuses on Lhotka's architecture
Review: I found the book to be useful, but I was hoping for more VB specific programming techniques. Rather, what I found was a book on Lhotka's CSLA. CSLA is interesting and I learned alot, but I was hoping for more specific VB info. He glazes over some key issues that left me scouring the net for more info on.Still, a good book, just understand what you're getting.
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Summary: Excellent book, I would highly recommend it!
Review: I read a lot of books in VB but THIS one is necessary for all professional developer. It's an expert book, so don't search for a lot of user interface code in it. It's all about engine under the hood. A MUST. I don't consider buying this book if it's your first start in VB. Try Beginning Object and Businness Object before this one.
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Summary: Great follow-up to VB6 Business Objects
Review: In a nutshell, if you just read and liked Visual Basic 6 Business Objects, get a hold of this book. Basically, this book is following Lhotka's architecture while adding new features to it's implementation. Features such as State Rollback, Load Balancing, and obviously, more objects usage on a distributed environment. You will also find some good usage of MSMQ and web-oriented objects. The only thing still missing is to see where the authors would fit XML into all this.
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Summary: The best book about distributed apps with VB and COM/MTS
Review: Lhotka goes straight to the important matter about this topic: solid arquitecture, UI and data centered business objects, and passing object state across networks. He does not waste time with no-sense XML/CSS, Interdev and other useless "fashionable" stuff. He takes care of the real critical issues when developing distributed apps. I have been programming distributed apps for the last 3 years using several techniques & technologies (DCOM, MTS, TCP-IP, LU62, etc) and I really appreciate this book; it's full of substance. I use a very different approach than the one proposed by Lhotka (because I use direct Winsock connections with a custom AppServer), but I found this book very usefull to compare against my particular framework and to extract some nice ideas. If I were to program with DCOM/MTS/MSMQ, I would use Lhotka's framework and this book would be a definitive guide. It's full of very intelligent and practical concepts. Don't waste your money & time in other books about this topic. This is the one you need.
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Summary: Excellent book that precurses terrible applications.
Review: Okay, so this is an excellent book. I am a distributed applications expert and I am very familiar with several distributed architectures. I even had the opportunity to sit down in a private meeting with the author to learn and discuss his ideas. The first thing I would like to say is that Rocky's CSLA architecture is by far one of the most rock solid systems I have seen today... BUT... People are implementing this in horrible horrible ways. I now pretty much have a career of going around to various companies and correcting the awful implementations of the CSLA arhcitecture. The problem? Programmers are implementing distributed architectures in applications that don't need them. Often, total beginners are using this advanced architecture to build tiny little webpage apps that would work fine with traditional approaches. If you are an experienced programmer, needing guidance on the development of a MASSIVELY scalable application with thousands of users, then this is the book for you. If you are beginner or intermediate programmer wanting to implement this architecture in some little project just for the sake of saying you made a distributed application, keep doing it!!! I need the money!
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Summary: Simply Outstanding
Review: The concepts and ideas presented in this book (as well as the Business Objects book) should be in the "toolbox" of every serious Visual Basic developer. The examples are concise and the concepts are easy to read and understand. I recently developed an n-tier e-commerce web application using the author's concepts for the middle tier. This was my first full-scale, enterprise-level effort, and I found the architecture easy to implement and the performance and scalability to be superb. Incidentally, the support from the author and publisher are excellent as well. When I had a question about the subject matter in the book, I e-mailed the author. I received a personal reply from Mr. Lhotka, with a detailed answer to my question, in just a couple of days.
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Summary: Excellent Resource
Review: This book is an excellent follow-up to VB6 Business Objects (which I also highly recommend). Filled with very practical advice and examples as to the hows & whys of developing n-tier applications.
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