Developing . NET Enterprise Applications

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT IS USUALLY faced with several critical factors: time to market, ever-increasing quality, and cost of development. Time to market is critical in that any project that an individual or company may have in mind is probably already in the works elsewhere. When that is the case, everything comes down to being the first to deliver . . . even if it falls short. A Gartner Research study showed that competing products offering similar features will take the most mar­ ket share if released sooner. The study further added that the product released first, even with fewer features, typically builds market share faster. The lesson of that study is that it is important to release a 1. 0 version of a new product concept as quickly as possible and then follow up with feature add-ons over time. Product consistency and quality are also critical to the success of products making their debut. Applications with modules that look differently can under­ mine the application user's confidence in the product. The lower their confidence in the application, the less they use the product and come to depend upon it. The same can be said at the code level. The more modules that are implemented con­ sistently, the easier different developers can step in to investigate and resolve problems. Cost of development is often measured by productivity, or how much code is created to accomplish specific application tasks.

Developing .NET Enterprise Applications is a complete guide to building a scalable enterprise application using .NET technologies. Other available books deeply describe individual Framework components, such as database, Windows Forms, or WebForms, but none tie all the technologies into a single scalable application.

When you start from short teaching an application to putting together such pieces as interaction with multi-tiers, varying back end databases, and legacy, the problems and techniques that are needed grow exponentially. The transition from learning a language to building an enterprise application is where the need for guidebooks is the greatest, and Developing .NET Enterprise Applications is designed to make the transition easier.

"Developing .NET Enterprise Applications is a complete guide to building a scalable enterprise application using .NET technologies. Other available books deeply describe individual Framework components, such as database, Windows Forms, or WebForms, but none tie all the technologies into a single scalable application. When you start from short teaching an application to putting together such pieces as interaction with multi-tiers, varying back end databases, and legacy, the problems and techniques that are needed grow exponentially. The transition from learning a language to building an enterprise application is where the need for "guidebooks" is the greatest, and Developing .NET Enterprise Applications is designed to make the transition easier."--Publisher's website Front Matter....Pages i-xxii Introducing .NET and Enterprise Architecture....Pages 1-21 Accessing Data in ADO.NET....Pages 23-69 Using Networking Directory Services....Pages 71-94 Applying Reliable Messaging....Pages 95-128 Integrating Mail Services....Pages 129-149 Automating Business Processes....Pages 151-176 Building Web Applications....Pages 177-210 Developing Desktop Applications....Pages 211-257 Using XML and web Services....Pages 259-300 Integrating Reporting Services....Pages 301-332 Deploying .NET Applications on Wireless Devices....Pages 333-376 Integrating .NET Applications....Pages 377-413 Understanding .NET Security and Cryptography....Pages 415-441 Installing .NET Applications....Pages 443-465 Back Matter....Pages 467-504 The transition from learning a language to building an enterprise application is the business and one where the need for guidebooks is the largest. When you go from short teaching application to piecing together all the pieces such as interacting with multi-tiers, various back end databases, legacy the problems and techniques needed grow exponentially. Kanalakis' book is designed to make the transition possible The author Kanalakis gives in-depth and detailed guidance on how to build a single, scalable enterprise application with C# and using .NET technologies.