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1: good start
I had a little experience with Des.Pat and this book helped me to speed up my knowledge. I encourage people to start DP with this book. This is less theory and a lot of practice. Which is very good. I have seen other books but they are a lot of theory less implementation and they are talking very very academic. So it's hard to understand. But this book brings you up to academic knowledge by given simple examples.
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2: Doing Objects in VB - I wish more authors would write like this
If you want to get up to speed quickly on OOP practices this is an excellent starting point. I wish more authors would write books like this, both writing style and material. Deborah has an easy to read style that makes the material she covers easy to comprehend.
The book walks the reader through a small and simple project. The downloaded code sample works and the build along instructions are accurate; and if followed will produce the same code as the downloaded version. There were a few time where I got to a point that I thought something was overlooked or wrong; and in each case when I turned the page or read the next 2-3 pages all was explained; this too helped me feel I was getting a good grasp of the material being presented.
So, with all this praise, why did I only give the book 4 stars? In my opinion there should have been another two - three chapters to really complete the material. What is in the book is how to use objects and bind them to Win forms, how to build a three-tier project and how to use the bound forms to edit records. What's missing is the Add & Delete functionality. Using bound objects with the DataGridView you lose the native ability of the grid to do column sorts since the objects being bound to do not implement iSortable (this is mentioned in the book but it would have been nice to have included). There was a nice use of Nullable(of Date) but this too would have been nice to expand (SQL allows for a null date but .NET doesn't allow Date types to be null, this creates some problems that the nullable(of Date) doesn't really overcome.
So, a Great book I highly recommend. It does a great job with the material it does cover; and you get a reusable development framework in the process, I just wish there were a few more chapters to really complete the material covered.
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3: good book but some examples are hard to understand.
If you know design patterns well, you make different accross developers! This book is describing each design pattern with an example. Sometimes it is difficult to get everything through one example but I'd recommend this book to everyone. I am good at vb.net so application of design patterns in vb.net is a big plus for me.
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4: One of Best for VB.Net Advance programmer
I am been reading this book. It covers majority of patterns, nicely categorizied. Book is not very length, explains concepts properly.
I recommend this books for any VB.Net programmer who wants to keep upper hand from thier peers.
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5: Design Patterns Rock
I purchased this book a long time ago and I have to admit a lot of the information presented went right over my head in the beginning. I felt the book was too hard to understand mostly because I was still very new to .Net in general. Well, after spending a few months working on a real life project, I got the suspension that our architecture could lead to problems in the future. So I started researching design patterns and asking other people on message boards how they approach design. After all of that, I decided to review this book again and I was amazed at how much of the information was sinking in my brain this time of around. I especially love the section on applying design patterns to the data access tier. I still have more to re-read, but that is my favorite section so far. This is a great book for design pattern newbies like myself. The approaches in this book can also work in C# although some minor syntax changes would have to be made. Well worth the price.
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