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The Definitive Guide to the Microsoft Enterprise Library introduces one of the most exciting and popular .NET-oriented initiatives, the Enterprise Library. The EL offers eight application blocks and other reusable code that are used to solve a variety of common problem spaces. These problems cover a number of topics, including data access, exception handling, caching, logging, security, cryptography, validation, policy injection and configuration.

Author Keenan Newton, a senior consultant for Microsoft Consulting Services, begins the book with an introduction to common challenges, explaining the conditions that brought about the creation of the EL. After an EL overview, subsequent chapters offer detailed information about each of the eight blocks. The book concludes by outlining the framework available for creating custom application blocks as well as other development spaces using application blocks.

You'll be able to build .NET applications faster and more efficiently by taking advantage of readily available code developed and released by Microsoft's patterns and practices group. You will be introduced to these technologies in conjunction with real-world scenarios.

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Please do not buy this book !!

When I saw a book on Microsoft Enterprise Library I was excited to buy it but I am very disappointed with this book, it looks like a copy of the help provided by Microsoft Enterprise Library. Author is assuming that you already know the Microsoft Enterprise library. In order to setup the examples first you need to google on the web to search where to download the required components and set them up. I feel like I wasted my money. Please do not buy this book if you are trying to learn Microsoft Enterprise Library. I hope I can find a decent book that can explain Microsoft Enterprise Library in an organized way. I do not like books when they copy the help.

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Could be better, could be worse

This book does a fairly good job of introducing the Enterprise Library. I found it to be a preferable alternative to the documentation that ships with the product, and it is the only book I could find that covered the newer libraries (3.0 and 3.1). The author chose to focus his attention on two things. Firstly, he does a pretty good job enumerating the API. I can't count the times I have looked into the product documentation only to find a blank skeleton with no help or description. He also does a very thorough job of putting together a comprehensive set of exercises for the reader to practice his / her new chops.

My first criticism is more for the publisher than the author. I think the price is a little high for what you get. I am guessing that the hard cover contributes to the price. I would be very happy to trade in the hard cover for a cheaper price. I am happy to shell out for a premium binding of a Martin Fowler or Eric Evans book or other similar "timeless" books of the trade, but I might think twice next time about spending so much on a guide to a versioned release of a minor product.

It took me a few chapters to figure out the author's method for organizing his thoughts. Each chapter describes a single application block. The first few pages jump right in to the API, describing most of the classes and highlighting important members. Then ... after that ... he describes a few ways (certainly not an exhaustive list) to put these ideas together. The last third of the chapter is a step-by-step guide through the practices. The end result for me was to do a lot of flipping back and forth in each chapter. I would:

- skim over the first section
- read the middle section, referring back to the first section
- look at the product documentation for more information
- find nothing of use
- go back to the book
- do my own sample code, completely bypassing the practices

Thus, the greatest strength of this book is the sheer fact that it really doesn't have any viable competition. The author does an admirable job attempting to document a product that has no other good documentation and is in a pretty rapid state of flux. With Enterprise Library 4.0 on the horizon, I am sure that the second edition of this book will be a worthy resource if the author can convince the publisher to get rid of the hard cover and bring the price down.


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Truly the definitive guide!

If you are wanting to utilize the Microsoft Enterprise Library in your organization, this is the book you need. I have found it to be extremely useful - walking me through each application block clearly.

The sample code is very useful and I have been able to get up to speed very quickly. Much more quickly than if I tried to navigate the offical Enterprise Library documentation.

If you are a developer with some basic experience in .NET - this book will be very useful. If you are new to development or are at a junior level - this book may be a bit much for you - similar to the other reviewer that gave this book a single star.

Good reading!

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Nice intro

It's a nice intro to the basic use of the framework. The first chapters were the most interestings for me because they talk about how the framework was conceived and around what patterns the framework has been built on (Dependency injection,Inversion of control, Factories and others).


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Contractions are not helpful!

This book contains a wealth of information about Access 2007. There are many hints and kinks that a seasoned Access programmer will find helpful. That is the reason for 4 stars ... BUT ...

This is the first book by O'Reilly press that looked like a college student who failed English 101 was the editor. The use of contractions throughout the text is driving me batty. Especially when the writer AND the editor both get it wrong. For example, speaking of the importance of using a primary key field in order to avoid duplicate records ... "you can't have two identical records. (At worst, they'll [sic] be two almost identical records" ... ) "They" had no action on the records ... the correct contraction is "there'll," which is horrible grammar. For this I would have given 1 star.

OK, enough picking at an otherwise good book. I am still reading the book and learning about the many tricks of Access 2007. However, I am almost ready to torch the book for poor readability, all for the sake of being 'familiar' with the readers. Skip it and write a technical book with proper grammar.

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Helped Me

This is well written and helps me bridge the gap between what is necessary and what I wish was intuitive.

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Brilliant guide

This is one of the best text books that I have ever used. For a novice or an experienced user, this book will help you to explore the various tools available with the 2007 version of Access. And with the downloadable examples, it is very easy to see how the explinations work on a real system. If you're going to be using Access 2007, I would suggest having this book near by.

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Detailed How To Manual for Access

This book contains information on may aspects of Access from basic to advanced. It saves you having to Bing or use Microsoft help when you try to figure out something new.

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Yep, I Love the Title AND the SERIES!!

I have always said that the Missing Manual Series is the best software trainer out there. O'Reilly bills the series as the missing manuals for the software programs. They are. They are great and any review that says otherwise is wrong, And, no I don't have anything to do with the publisher!!

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Helpful, How it needs to have step by step instructions using Visual Studio 2005 and less technical discussion. VS insulates!

1. If you do not specify the action, the form goes right back to itself. This is called a postback form because it post back to itself.

2.Upon the first time code is submitted to the server it is compiled and ASP does not compile tags it does not recognize. Once the code is compiled, ASP.Net start processing all the user code and event handlers. Event handlers have the following parameters: sender as object and E as eventargs.

3. ASP.Net automatically keeps track of the view state. Developers do not have to maintain or retrieve data being input on the form between different view states.

4. VB.NET variable types are: Byte, short, integer, long, single, double, decimal, char, date, boolean, string, datetime, and objects

5. VB.NET conversion functions are: Cbool, CDec, Cobj, CType, CByte, Cdbl, CShort, Asc, CChar, CInt, CSng, CDate, CLng, Cstr

6. You can create and define code in your event handler "sub handlers button_click(sender as object, e as event args)". When an event is raised - meaning the event happened - it produces variables that describe the event. The object data type represent the object that raised the event.

7. Date/Time functions: datediff, firstdayofweek, day, dayofweek, hour, isdate, minute, now, month,, second, year.

8. Math functions: abs, atan, cos, exp,fix, hex, int, log, oct. rnd, round, sin, sqrt, tan

9. String functions: instr, left, len, mid, replace, right.

10. Buffering allows you to control when output is sent to the browser. Response.buffer = false turns off buffering. When output is buffered, nothing is sent to the buffer until all the code has been executed or the buffer is full. Unbuffered output goes immediately to the browser. Response.flush forces the buffer to empty to the browser.

11. If you create a cookie with a value and then add keys, the initial value will be erased. You can not create cookies with both values and keys.

12. If the browser does not support session cookies, ASP.Net tacks on an encoded version of the session id to a link. When a user clicks a link, ASP decodes the session id and passes to the page the user is requesting.

13. Web forms handles all events and generates html on the server. "" means that upon the button click event a clickhander event will be called passing object and eventargments as parameters. The coding for the event is stored as code referenced by the asp.net page by the directive, "<@page language='vb' CodeFile='your_external_vb_code.aspx.vb' AutoEventWireup='false' Inherits='_Default'>"

14. The Web forms processing order: a. page is requested b. viewstate is restored for any controls c. the page_load event occurs d. events are handled, the page_unload event occurs.

15. The autopostback=true attribute cause the eventhandler to be executed immediately on event. Defined as "OnTextchanged='myhandler'", when the text has changed, a post will occur, and the myhandler function will be called.

16. The web forms framework is a huge boon for Web developers, both in UI creation and application logic. Once you've been developing with Web forms for a while, you'll wonder how you ever lived without them!

17. Accessing Data with ASP.Net: a. setup a database connection b. open the database connection c. fill a dataset with the desired date d. setup a dataview to display the data e. bind a server control to the dataview through the databinding method of the control.

18. ADO.NET full embraces XML, allowing it to communicate with XML compliant applications. ADO.Net revolves around the dataset. A dataset is a memory resident data store that provides a consistent program model for accessing data. A data set contains sets of data, constraints, relationships, and even multiple tables.

19. There are two ways to use a data store: a. Fill it with another data store c) create your own data store. The Data store has a table collections called ds.tables("name"). The ds.tables("name").primary=datacolumn defines the primary key where the datacolumn has two parameters a name and data type. Other columns can be defined for columns collection in by using ds.tables("name").columns.add(datacollection). Data Relationships form follows as, dataRelations("name",datacolumn1,datacolumn2) and joins the relations collection ds.tables("name").relations.add(datarelations). Last Datarows can be inserted using dr=new datarow where dr(index)=value and the index is the field index assigned a value. The datarow joins the ds.tables("name").rows.add(datarow), the datarows collection.

20. ADO.Net Dataset has a number of advantages: Scalability - no locks or active connections; Firewalls - XML is completely firewall proof; Programmability - does not require use of data contructs; sharing data - no data conversions are required; relationships - object structure maintains the relationship; data access - non sequential access to the multiple table data.

21. Many companies try to build propriety communication systems that allow services to be exchanged, but these are often to expensive and complicated to maintain. A web service is a programmable object that provides functionality that's accessible to any number of systems over the internet. Web services rely on the fact that any type of system or application can use http.

22. Why use web services. Corporations are trying to tie traditional applications together into a single composite entity. Web services provide a very simple mechanism for applications to communicate with each other. With Webservices you can reuse code that other people have developed. Web service files are vb.net or c# files that end in an .asmx extension.

23. A Webservice uses an XML format call the Service Description Language (SDL) to tell the clients what can be done with the service. Webservices have methods just as regular classes and business objects do.

24. Discover is the process by which a client finds out about a Web Service. Calling the service from code is simple.
Dim objCalculator As New CalculatorService

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NOT for beginners

I spent 2 months on day 1. If the author had simply added, "If you can't install IIS, you can use Personal Web Server, which comes free from Microsoft," it would have saved me a lot of time. I gave up on the book.

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Codes don't work????

I am perplexed at the users that rated this publication highly and I would be very interested in speaking with them to find out how they got the codes to work. About 80% of the codes that I type from this book result in me reiceiving errors in my application - even if I type it exactly the way the book does! I do not understand why Sams publishing would allow this book to be published and I would STRONGLY reccomend that browsers interested in this book do not purchase it. Especially if you are new to programming because it is extremely confusing for new users. I have a background in programming and I find it confusing at times. However the book's biggest disadvantage is that is the coding errors! I even downloaded the codes directly from the publisher and they still throw errors. So I know its not my mistake in typing them out because the downloaded ones from the publisher do not work either!

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DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK-It's out of date.

It's a good book for what I used it for. I didn't use the book to actually learn how to program asp.net. The examples in the book are useful for indicating how certain classes are supposed to be used and there is some explanation of usage. It's thick and heavy.

Biggest drawback is the fact that this book was written for ASP.net 1.1. The industry is at version 3.5 right now. You cannot transfer the classes used in 1.1 to 2.0 or 2.5. All the examples that I used were in VB.net, which is in my opinion after programming in java for 3 years before, much closer to java than c#. This was a great book when it was its time, but the only reason to purchase this book now is to serve as a door stop, or if you are running a really old windows web server with just .net 1.1 on board.

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n00b to guru in 21 days!

I might be crazy, but reading this book was actually a lot of fun! It covers everything you need to get going with ASP.NET. The focus early on with Access databases was a little rough for me because i was looking for more info on SQL (it does cover sql later on btw). The layout of the lessons felt good, and the author wasn't to 'rambley', which made it easy to read for hours and hours.

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