This book is basically a cookbook of some of the different technologies available in .Net in conjunction with numerous 'simple' application framework components that the author has created around them in order to demonstrate how aan application framework can be developed..
The reason I got this book is simple. I have spent a very large part of my development career firmly in the Microsoft stable. I know how to use Microsoft technolgies such as .net and I am very familiar with Sql Server. Unfortunately I had never been 'allowed' the opportunity to utilize Oracle as a backend data store.....