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Brownfield Application Development in .NET
EARLY ACCESS EDITION
Kyle Baley and Donald Belcham

MEAP Release: March 2008
Softbound print: March 2009 (est.) | 550 pages
ISBN: 1933988711
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Table of Contents, MEAP Chapters & Resources

Table of Contents         Resources 
Part I: The ecosystem
 1. Understanding Brownfield Development - FREE
 2. Source control systems - AVAILABLE
 3. Continuous integration - AVAILABLE
 4. Automated testing - AVAILABLE
 5. Metrics and static analysis - AVAILABLE
 6. Defect tracking - AVAILABLE 		Part II: The code
 7. Bringing better OO Practices to the Project
 8. Layering
 9. Inversion of Control
10. Object Relational Mappers
11. Model View
12. Working with other systems
13. Keeping the momentum

Appendix. Tools 		 

DESCRIPTION

It’s easy to get excited about building a new software project from scratch. So-called "greenfield" projects often involve learning new technology and the opportunity for experimentation. Working on established software projects may seem less glamorous.

Most software developers have inherited a monolithic application where the day-to-day tasks involve maintenance, incremental improvements, or even cleaning up the mess another programmer left behind. These legacy or brownfield projects often have tightly coupled components, low cohesion, and poor separation of concerns, making them fragile and resistant to change.

Brownfield Application Development in .Net shows you how to approach legacy applications with the state-of-the-art concepts, patterns, and tools you’ve learned to apply to new projects. Using an existing application as an example, this book guides you in applying the techniques and best practices you need to make it more maintainable and receptive to change.

Starting with the build process and the introduction of unit tests, the authors show you how to set up the application so that in later chapters, you can make incremental changes aimed at decoupling components from each other. Each practice introduced will increase your confidence and ability to make subsequent changes to your code.

As the book proceeds, the authors introduce frameworks and tools commonly used today while still approaching the subject from a conceptual level so that you can substitute alternate tools as appropriate. This book examines the reasons why a tool is necessary, not the tool itself. Because the book is based on the authors’ experiences, Brownfield Application Development in .Net moves beyond the theories and shows you the techniques you need to be successful.

WHAT'S INSIDE:

About the Authors

Kyle Baley has been developing applications since 1998 with a focus on web applications. He has built software for a number of industries, including transportation, telecommunications, private banking, oil and gas, online education, and hotels and hospitality.

Donald Belcham is an independent contractor who has been developing applications for the public and private sectors of North America and the South Pacific since 2000. In those years he has built some green field applications, but more often than not he has inherited partially completed systems (brownfield) which were in dire need of resuscitation.

About the Early Access Version

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