The completed first draft of the Using CSLA 4: Creating Business Objects ebook is now online and available for purchase.

If you’ve purchased (or now purchase) the Using CSLA 4 ebook series you’ll also have access to this new ebook.

This is book 2 of the series. The next book will be Using CSLA 4: Data Access, followed by Using CSLA 4: Security. These first four ebooks cover all the core concepts around using CSLA 4 to build your business layer, along with various options for building a data access layer and implementing authentication.

After these four are complete I’ll move on to ebooks covering how to use a CSLA .NET business layer to create applications with different types of UI, including Silverlight, WPF, ASP.NET MVC and Windows Phone 7 (WP7).

Here’s the top-level outline of the Creating Business Objects book’s contents:

1. Introduction

2. Key Object Concepts

1. Stereotypes

2. Serialization

3. Object Lifetime

4. Object Relationships

5. Object Identity and Equality

6. Platform Differences in .NET and Silverlight

7. Property Declarations

8. Method Declarations

9. Metastate

3. Solution Structure

1. Project Types and Assembly References

2. Combining Project to Create Solutions

4. Object Stereotypes

1. Editable Objects

2. Read-Only Objects

3. Execution Objects

4. Criteria Objects

5. LINQ Types

6. Windows Forms Types

5. Business Rules

1. Business and Validation Rules

2. Authorization Rules

For those who are wondering, the first ebook is almost through the editing process and the “draft” designation will then be removed.