This book is written for architects and developers preparing to design and build enterprise-scale e-business applications using Microsoft's Visual Studio.NET and .NET Framework. It will guide technical architects and software developers through the design and development of a fully-featured e-commerce application, the gasTIX online ticketing system, using the .NET suite of technologies. Along the way, key concepts behind new .NET products such as C#, Visual Basic .NET, Visual C++ .NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and Web Services are explained. The author team, consisting of several talented G.A. Sullivan consultants, has combined experience equaling tens of years in the trenches with the various releases of Microsoft Visual Studio.
The fully-functional live sample application built for the book can be seen at gasullivan
.NET e-Business Architecture is meant to be read by technical architects and software developers responsible for designing and building Internet-based applications for the .NET platform. It provides detailed information on implementing a .NET system design, and presents the best practices and lessons learned along the way. Coding techniques using the Visual Studio .NET tool suite are demonstrated throughout the book. The sample code is based on the actual implementation of an enterprise-scale sample application, gasTIX.
.NET e-Business Architecture is also appropriate for information system managers faced with planning issues. This book explains the key concepts behind the most important technologies in the .NET platform. Visual C# .NET, Visual Basic .NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, SOAP, and XML-based Web Services are all covered. More importantly, this book provides practical examples of how to effectively implement these technologies, as well as when and why they should be considered.
About the Author
G.A. Sullivan has been honored as Microsoft's Mid-America District Partner of the Year an unprecedented two years in a row in 1997 and 1998. The company has been consistently recognized through various awards and commendations as a leading technology services company, with offices across the United States and in Europe. The technical experts participating on the authoring team of this book each bring to the table years of professional software development experience. These consultants work day in, day out with Microsoft technologies in a variety of project environments, helping clients design and build technology solutions to business problems. They lecture on such topics as object oriented programming and component design.