Expert One-On-One Visual Basic . NET Business Objects

In the late 1990s, author Rockford Lhotka wrote extensively on creating distributed, object-oriented Windows applications using Visual Basic 6, COM, and DCOM. The introduction of .NET has motivated him to revisit these themes and revise his strategy. In this book, he explains the changes introduced by .NET, the possibilities that are emerging, and an essential tutorial on the best ways to make .NET work for you. This book is divided into three parts. In the first, Lhotka analyzes logical and physical application architectures, exploring their effect on scalability, fault tolerance, and performance. In the second, he implements and documents a Visual Basic .NET framework for the creation of distributed, object-oriented applications that employ .NET technologies including remoting, serialization, and auto-deployment. This framework encapsulates functionality such as database access, transaction handling, and location transparency. In the last part of the book, you'll use the framework to create a sample application, and discover the ease with which you can write Windows, Web, and Web services interfaces for the underlying objects. In addition, this book contains the author's own Component-based, Scalable, Logical Architecture (CSLA .NET), an object-oriented framework that can act as the foundation for a diverse range of enterprise applications. By the end of the book, you'll be free to examine, use, and modify this architecture for your own needs. Front Matter....Pages N3-xii Introduction....Pages 1-6 Distributed architecture....Pages 8-41 Framework design....Pages 42-101 Key technologies....Pages 102-153 Business framework implementation....Pages 154-226 Data access and security....Pages 228-309 Object-oriented application design....Pages 310-346 Business object implementation....Pages 348-442 Windows Forms UI....Pages 444-489 Web Forms UI....Pages 490-553 Web services interface....Pages 554-591 Reporting and batch processing....Pages 592-659 Back Matter....Pages 660-702 In the late 1990s, Rockford Lhotka wrote about how to create distributed, object-oriented Windows applications using the limited facilities of Visual Basic 6, COM, and DCOM. In this book, he explains how .NET changes what's possible, and demonstrates what he believes to be the best way to use it.