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Title: Not Professional Grade
Review: That's great that the other reviewer got a lot out of this book, but unfortunately I didn't. The projects are not anything near professional grade in my opinion. For example, in the first project the code in the UI makes lots of calls to the database directly. From the title, I felt that a real-world distributed application using a data access layer and maybe even a web services layer would have been more appropriate. Also, the user interface design throughout the projects is non-standard and quite hokey in my opinion. I'm usually not that critical about the application architecture and UI design in the case studies presented in a book, but when the title is "Professional Projects" I believe the bar should be raised a lot higher. I would recommend the IBuySpy Developer Solution Kits that are free from Microsoft over this book. ...
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