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Christian Thilmany
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Featured Customer Reviews  This book is not for WinForm developers,
February 01, 2007
I found the original GoF book, "Head First Design Patterns", even "Design Patterns for Dummies" better than this book. Also, it is unfortunate that .NET developers have to resort to these books and do not have a definitive Patterns book in any .NET language. The "Design Patterns in C#" is OK but that book has questions placed in there on nearly every page asking you to do something that isn't covered yet in the book which is bothersome.
.NET developers would do well to stay away from this book even if you are a patterns lover.
 An Brilliant Contribution to our Field - Read 2-3 Times,
October 24, 2004
The negative reviews puzzle me completely! I can only imagine the readers were expecting something different or didn't read the same book I did . Or do not build enterprise applications. I don't mean to say anything negative about my professional associates on Amazon, I just think (as a person addicted to reading ) that this book is absolutely, positively fantastic.
There are so many nuggets of gold in this book. ANY serious .NET architect should have this publication on their book shelf.
There are about 5 more core books, many by Addison Wesley, a company that in my mind is leading the pack in Software Engineering work. Just my 2 cents.
If you would like my reading list please email as I am always happy to help those that are seeking a path. If I know your goals, I can probably certainly give you a set of books to get you to your goal. And again, I do disagree with the negative reviews but I do not mean any disrespect. Just friendly disagreement.
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Damon Carr, CEO and Chief Technologist
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September 12, 2004Good ideas but...,
August 06, 2004 I have to disagree with most of the reviews here. I think the author has some good design pattern idea's. It seems like if a pattern book doesn't rehash the GOF's book for the 654654th time, its not a good pattern book. The author had some good ideas, and while most of the patterns are fairly focused to a specific problem and are not totally generic, it doesn't mean its not a good pattern idea. It's just a domain specific pattern. I think the author should have clearly specified that, but didn't and that was a mistake. He billed the book as a general user pattern book. So I game him 4 stars on that.
But, in my job I'm very focused on code performance, so I knocked him back down two stars because these patterns are pretty much useless if you are designing anything that needs high performance capabilities, like web services. Most of the book is focused on patterns that he applies to web services, but he uses stuff like XML, DataSets and Reflection to create his abstraction layers. These three things are the 3 WORST performing features of .Net. If you are creating anything that needs to run `fast', you should stay away from all three of these. The pattern that killed me was his abstract packet pattern, which used DataSets or strongly typed DataSets to pass a list of parms between functions. He even hyped this pattern up based on performance reasons. I'd have to bet the guy never ran his code through a profiler to see what the performance implications of this pattern were. He made a lot of performance claims, but never showed the numbers to prove them, which is a dangerous thing because many developers will take what an author says as word, and not test the claim for themselves.
So I think he had good ideas, but very poor choices with his implementation technology. Just not what you expect,
July 15, 2004
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