Building Client/Server Applications Under VB .NET: An Example-Driven Approach

Building Client/Server Applications with VB .NET: An Example-Driven Approach is based on Release 1.0 of the .NET Framework / Release 1.0 of Visual Studio .NET + .NET Framework Service Pack 1. Jeff Levinson walks readers through how to write a complete application&emdash; no `snippets` of code&emdash; and will show readers examples of how, when, and why to perform a task. Building Client/Server Applications with VB .NET: An Example-Driven Approach will be the manual on software development for Enterprise application development.

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Finally a real world application!
This book combines all the necessary elements, remoting, coding to interfaces, reusable code, to create a real world enterprise level application. The book takes difficult topics and applies them to the Northwind database which all developers are familiar with. This book is by no means a book for beginners. However, if you have a good understanding of Object Oriented application design then you should be okay. I took off one star because I felt there should be a little more background information on remoting to make using the sample application less frustrating. However, the author replied within a few hours and helped me troubleshoot my issue. All in all, a great, well-thought out book.

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Poorly written
Where is the big picture? It would have been nice if the Author would have mentioned what the sample application is supposed to do rather than just use a 'here, type this code in' approach. I can only assume he passed the 70-300 certification exam because it certainly does not show in his writing. I understood this book only because I have already written client/server applications myself. Woe to the reader who tries to use this book as a tutorial.

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If only all programming books were this concise
Wow!

Thank you Mr.Levinson. Finally, a programming text that is easy to understand and relevant to modern application development.

This book is my new bible. I highly recommend it to anyone interested and capable of this level of programming.

I especially appreciated the examples, which were not only easy to implement, but presented a logical step-wise approach to the client/server model under .Net.