Building an ASP.NET Intranet

Description: If you wish to understand the IBUY Portal, don't count on this book to help you. I didn't like the style and structure of this book. I got the sense that this book was just another rush publication with a group of programmers getting together, assigning chapters with desired content and then got down to pulling and writing code. WROX needs to do a better job of controlling quality and up front planning for their books. Sorry, but this book shows none of that. The design of the existing site was mostly crammed into a single chapter. A decent database diagram was not included and no UML or other diagrams were presented so we could easily understand the Object architecture. Instead, the documentation was simply a straight lift from sql server table descriptions. I found myself drawing my own diagrams as I went through the book. An architect's perspective was desparately needed in this first chapter. I won't be buying any more WROX books if things don't improve by enforcing good technical .. ISBN: 1861007493 Release Date: October, 2002 List Price: $34.99 Author: Jonathon Walsh, Matt Gibbs, Kourosh Ardestani, Chandu Thota, Chad Hutchison, Brian Patterson, John Roth, Andy Elmhorst, Brian Boyce, Saurabh Nandu Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Last Updated: 06/26/2003

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