Enterprise Solution Patterns Using Microsoft .NET

By Microsoft Corporation

Get expert guidance on patterns-simple, proven mechanisms by which software professionals can share important architectural tradeoffs and design decisions-and help reduce the complexity of building... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735618399
• ISBN13: 9780735618398
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

If you're interested how design patterns are implemented

I bought this book since I wanted to know not only what design patterns are feasible on the .NET framework, but how to implement it. This book takes a text book approach to discussing the pros and cons of a particular design to solve a recurring problem in application design. This book assumes you have some enterprise application experience and are familiar with the .NET framework. This is an patterns book that is applicable to .NET. Since I'm a developer, the items of most interest to me were chapter 3, discussing web presentation designs: MVC (implemented in 3 ways), Page Controller, and Front Controller. What I didn't like was the way that the example in the Front Controller didn't have the capability to dynamically specify which view was to be the target page following a command object execution. Although the sequence diagrams were very good in helping understanding the concepts of web design patterns; I felt that they should have used more diagrams in the later chapters. Other than that, I found the book to have sufficient enough information that I needed to know to buy it when I came across it at Borders.

A Good book for .NET Architects

As the name suggest this book will teach you the enterprise patterns as they should be used under the MS .NET framework. If you are already experienced in developing enterprise solutions, it does a real nice job in ordering things, and putting them into the right perspective. More importantly if you are relatively new to .NET it will show you how each of the common patterns is implemented in .NET, and the common practices on how to use the framework. Saving you a long time poking through the framework to see what's there. Since the MS implementations of patterns is sometimes different than the classic implementation, it does a good job in mapping the patterns you may already be familiar with to what the programmers of .NET had in mind. All in all, if you are actively working to architect a new enterprise system or systems, you'll find this book helpful.

A Great Book!!

People who have give 1 star and bad reviews are not getting it. Patterns & Practices group does not indulge in intellectual masturbation like all the other pattern gurus do. They are very practical and hands on.

Must read for an Architect (.NET, Windows, Microsoft)

This is a very good book for an architect who designs Microsoft platform based solutions or integrates legacy solutions with Microsoft platform. The electronic version of this book is available on MSDN online. I found it after I bought this book, but I did not regret it. The examples of the pattern implementations are not comprehensive, but they are a good start. I like this book, because it put many concepts and design paradigms together.

Best practices for designing robust software

This book contains nuggets of pure gold for anyone looking to design better software faster.Don't be put off by the title "Enterprise Solution Patterns" - this book is not targeted solely at technical architects working on massive projects. The insights, analysis and examples are highly relevant to developers designing and building any non-trivial software.The association with .NET needn't put you off reading this book, either, because the design patterns it contains are firstly described in the abstract and then applied using .NET - the patterns themselves are equally valid for Java developers, for example.What makes this book outstanding are its structure and the clarity of its language.Microsoft has created a framework in which its design patterns (and those of others) can be seen in a broader context - in the way they relate to each other and in the way they relate to the various software development roles (DBA, Developer, Operations Staff, etc) and the various tasks they perform (eg analyse, design, deploy, operate).The clarity of thinking behind the book is matched by the clarity of expression within it. If you've struggled over the complexities of substantial design patterns, then this book will cut through the fog and give you much greater understanding into some of the best design patterns in use today.Why would you read it? To make you a better professional, add to your armoury of proven solutions to common software design problems and steal a march over colleagues who still rely on personal experience and intuition rather than tapping into the combined experience of hundreds of successful developers distilled into a powerful, readable, practical book.