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.

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

Computers & Technology

Rockford Lhotka

Programming

Apress

This book is a translation of Rockford Lhotka's industry-standard title Expert One-on-One Visual Basic .NET Business Objects into C# language. Lhotka's ideas remain extremely influential in .NET development, and this book translates those ideas directly to you, the C# programmer. Expert C# Business Objects reveals the opportunities available through .NET. You will learn to make informed decisions about developing your enterprise C# projects. Further, you will learn how to successfully trade off between performance and flexibility. This book contains the author’s component-based, scalable, logical architecture (CSLA .NET), an object-oriented framework that acts as the foundation for a range of enterprise applications which you are free to examine, use and modify.

Expert C# Business Objects

In recent years, the concept of "business objects" has taken hold in the developer community. Basically, these are the processes that deal with some input data and mediate the appropriate business response. These pages show how Visual Basic is a great tool to implement such a system. .

Professional Visual Basic 5.0 Business Objects

Programming Languages

Wrox Press

Covers COM interoperability in detail, and broadens the focus to examine a range of issues that must be handled in order for VB6 and COM code to run on .NET. Aimed at experienced Visual Basic developers who need to make COM and VB6 code interoperate with the new .NET platform. Softcover.

Professional Visual Basic Interoperability - COM and VB6 to .NET

Billy Hollis

Networking & Cloud Computing

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. The introduction of .NET has motivated him to revisit those themes and revise his strategy. In this book, he explains how .NET changes what's possible, and demonstrates what he believes to be the best way to use it.  The book has three parts. In the first, the author 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, which are inherited automatically by any applications created from it.  In the last part of the book, the author uses the framework to create a sample application, and demonstrates the ease with which it's possible to write Windows, web, and web services interfaces for the underlying objects.

This book is a code library: it is a collection of components, classes, or nuggets of functionality that you can use, sometimes straight "out-of-the-box", sometimes with minimal tweaking. Each component is a flexible application building block, ready to fit neatly into your coding projects. Their usefulness stems from their encapsulation of code that is often common to many applications. 
This book is also a discovery tool. Through the classes contained within this book, you can explore how the .NET Framework can be used to solve common problems. Each class also presents a set of programming techniques which take advantage of .NET's object orientation and extensive class library. 
In writing this book, the authors' aim was threefold. First it is a simple catalogue of code, readily usable (and re-usable) that should allow you to speed up your development time. Second it is a collection of practical classes, not simple examples: these classes have been chosen for their usefulness in everyday coding. And third, by following a structured approach, each class illustrate a particular aspect of .NET Development, enabling you the reader to learn from them and apply these techniques to your own coding.

Visual Basic .NET Solutions Toolkit: 30 Practical Components for .NET

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

Expert C# Business Objects

Professional Visual Basic 5.0 Business Objects

Professional Visual Basic Interoperability - COM and VB6 to .NET

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

Visual Basic .NET Solutions Toolkit: 30 Practical Components for .NET

Professional Visual Basic Interoperability - COM and VB6 to .NET