Book Description
During the book, we use a tool developed by an author (The full source code is made available to readers, with an appendix devoted to its full description), which uses the structure of a relational database to build a rich object layer. This abstracts a lot of the complexity of building a rich application object model and makes it possible for application architects and programmers to create a powerful, highly reusable object model with a simple desktop application.
The book begins by taking a look at the overall design of the enterprise application and then moves on to show how the enterprise can be accessed from desktop and mobile applications, as well as over the web using ASP.NET. Web Services also play a big part by exposing the functionality of the underlying business objects, as well as being used for authentication amongst other things. Of course, security is discussed where particular issues arise, as well as being covered in more depth in its own chapter. Once we have the enterprise application up and running, we look at administration, hosting, and management.
Publisher comments
People interested in this would be:
- Developing and selling off-the-shelf software products for use as line-of-business (or to an extent productivity) applications
- People who customize either their own organization's off-the-shelf products or another organization's off-the-shelf products for deployment as a line-of-business application
- Developing line-of-business applications internally
Intermediate in level, this book will help beginners and advanced developers alike to appreciate the scope and requirements inherent in building enterprise applications.
About the author
Karli Watson is an in-house author for Wrox Press with a penchant for multicolored clothing. He started out with the intention of becoming a world famous nanotechnologist, so perhaps one day you might recognize his name as he receives a Nobel Prize. For now, though, Karli's computing interests include all things mobile, and upcoming technologies such as C#.
Bill Forgey is the Technical Lead in his current position, introducing project methodology, new technologies, standards, and training to development teams. He has spent some time consulting and has been exposed to technologies such as ASP, Delphi, Pascal, COM, C/C++, SQL, Java, ADO, Visual Basic, and now .NET. He also co-authored Professional VB.NET (Wrox Press) and Beginning Visual Basic .NET Databases (Wrox Press).
Brian Patterson currently works for Affina, Inc. as a Technical Team Leader, where he is generally working with C++ on HP-UX or Windows development with any number of the Visual Studio languages. Brian wrote his first programming article at the age of 19 (1994) and has been writing for various programming publications ever since. Brian has co-authored several .NET related books including "Migrating to Visual Basic .NET" and "C# Bible".
