Microsoft Silverlight Books

Excellent book

This book is well written and structured in a very intuitive way. It starts with a general and informative discussion of software architecture and then proceeds to take a detailed look at the various design decisions, patterns and components that can be found in a layered design. It references and elaborates upon many of the patterns in Martin Fowler's Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture so a familiarity with that work is recommended but not necessarily required. It can both act as a supplement to the PoEAA in addition to standing very well on its own.

This book is required reading and highly recommended.

Adam Garren
17 November, 2009

Great Book

This is a great book. Microsft has never been very good at guiding developers and software architects for building complex systems. I think this books fills that gap. Dino Esposito is one of the best .NET writers and he shows that in this book.
The book is very well structured and easy to read. The first part is about principles and best practices of software architecture, design and developement (UML, the role of an enterprise architect, OOP).
The second part covers each layer of an enterprise application: Business Layer, Service Layer, Data Access Layer and UI Layer. It covers the most important patterns presented in Martin Fowler's book Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture. Some of them are:
-BL:
Transaction Script
Table Module
Domain Model
Active Record (Although Fowler categorizes this pattern as a DAL)
-Service Layer:
Service Layer
DTO
-DAL:
Plugin
Inversion of Control
Lazy Loading,
Identity Map
Data Mapper
Unit Of Work
-UI:
MVC
MVP
PM
Front Controller
There's also a sample application that shows all the patterns and practices covered in the book.

Alan Macgowan
29 September, 2009

Mustknown material for the .NET architect, nicely gathered within this book

Full of known material for the experienced .NET architect, but even then useful for confirmation and reference.

W. J. M. Strien
14 September, 2009

Great book

Part 1 (1st 3 chapters) is kinda boring to read if you have been doing software design for years.
Fortunately, Part 2 is extremely excellent, useful and practical to the .NET development environment.

I will recommend this book to all .NET developers.


Steven Koh
11 September, 2009

I ordered a copy for each of my developers

I was reading Dinos and Andrea's book during my holydays in Italy. It is one of the best books I read in the last few months. I'm especially pleased, that this book brings the concepts and patterns from Eric Evans Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software, which I by the way read during my holydays last year, and Martin Fowler Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Addison-Wesley Signature Series) closer to the developers. I'm running a small software production company (see YouTube enventionag) and I just ordered 13 copies of this great book to get each of my developers a personal copy.

Anton Kaufmann
28 July, 2009