Practical Software Engineering: Analysis and Design for the .NET Platform (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)

While many will resist this evolution those of us who have
experienced similar shifts from machine code to assembly
language and the maturing third generation languages appreciate
the concrete concepts put forth in this most excellent text.

If you want to keep hacking, experience the never-ending death
march's not to mention the managed confusion of software
development, then this book isn't for you !


Mostly independent of .NET   November 8, 2003
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This book presents an internally consistent software engineering methodology that is contained entirely on Microsoft's .NET platform. A parallel universe of code development, as it were. If you hail from a java-centric J2EE background, most of this book will be familiar turf. Indeed, over 80% of the book is germane to any operating system and language environment. The higher level stages, like getting system requirements or nutting out the analysis model, should be independent of the eventual implementation minutiae. Thus, of the ten chapters, only one, on the implementation model, is truly tied to .NET. (Which suggest that the book's audience is broader than the ".NET" in the title might imply.)

Now if you scan a typical book on designing using java/J2EE, you will be lucky to find even cursory mention of any alternative environments, let alone .NET. This book returns the favour; studiously minimising references to java/J2EE. But, as suggested above, on this topic such differences are only at the lowest level.

So from your standpoint, if you are engaging in a .NET-based project and you come from elsewhere, this book might considerably ease the pain of transition.