Oop: Building Reusable Components with Microsoft Visual Basic .Net (Visual Basic.Net)

I have 2 bookshelves of bargain .net books. This is by far the worst on the whole collection. I was expecting a book on component building. What I got was a walkthrough of building a clunky enterprise application. For component building, I reccommend the Apress! Class design Handbook as a starting point. Despite the inappropriate title, I read on and found poor practice after poor practice. If I were tasked with maintaining the resulting application, I would schedule a re-write from scratch. For a better insight about modern real world n-tier and component development, I recommend any of Rockford Lhotka's Business Objects books, especially the newer ones. Annotation Object Oriented Programming (OOP) is now a reality with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET. This hands-on reference teaches professional programmers the proven, real-world strategies for constructing rich, object-oriented frameworks for complex business applications-faster and more efficiently. Focusing on a crucial problem many businesses face today, the shortage of skilled application developers, this book details how to quickly create reusable code components using Visual Basic.NET. All the book's code examples are contained on a companion CD-ROM Welcome to the world of object-oriented development with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and the M