- Hardcover: 1000 pages
- Publisher: MICROSOFT PRESS; 1 edition (16 Jun 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0735622779
- ISBN-13: 978-0735622777
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 19 x 5.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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Exam Prep Guide
Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-536—and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce what you’ve learned by applying your knowledge to real-world case scenarios and labs. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help you make the most of your study time.
Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to:
- Use system types, collections, and generics to help manage data
- Validate input, reformat text, and extract data with regular expressions
- Develop services, application domains, and multithreaded applications
- Enhance your application by adding graphics and images
- Implement code access security, role-based security, and data encryption
- Work with serialization and reflection techniques
- Instrument your applications with logging and tracing
- Interact with legacy code using COM Interop and PInvoke
Practice Tests
Assess your skills with practice tests on CD. You can work through hundreds of questions using multiple testing modes to meet your specific learning needs. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers—including a customized learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies.
Your kit includes:
- 15% exam discount from Microsoft. Offer expires 12/31/10. Details inside.
- Official self-paced study guide.
- Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results.
- 450 practice and review questions.
- Case scenarios and lab exercises.
- Code samples on CD.
- 90-day evaluation version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition.
- Fully searchable eBook.
About the Author
Tony Northrup, MCTS, MCSE, CISP, MVP, is a networking consultant and coauthor of Windows Server 2008 Networking and Network Access Protection (NAP).
I am a Microsoft C# MVP and the founder of Wildermuth Consulting Services, LLC, a company that is dedicated to delivering software and training solutions in the Atlanta, Georgia area. I am also a speaker on the INEA Speaker's Bureau and have appeared at several national conferences to speak on a variety of subjects. I am the author of the book "Pragmatic ADO.NET", the upcoming "Prescriptive Data Architectures", both for Addison-Wesley as well as co-author of several certification books for Microsoft Press. I have been writing articles for a number of years for a variety of magazines and websites, including MSDN, MSDN Online, DevSource, The ServerSide .NET, ONDotNet.com and Intel's Rich Client Series. I have enjoyed building data-driven software for more than twenty years.
Bill Ryan is an MVP for Windows Embedded and a frequent speaker at industry events including Microsoft Code Camps and .NET User’s Groups. GrandMasters is an IT consulting firm specializing in content development, exam development, and customized technical support.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Bought this book with the idea to quickly go through it and take the new 70-536 exam. Unfortunately there are so many errors in descriptions, code and statements that I am now using it as a study guide for the areas required in the exam, and MSDN online as the actual source of information. This is obviously taking much longer than expected and i probably won't be ready for the booked exam.
The book I guess covers all the required areas but in such low detail and often in way that contradicts itself and MSDN that it leaves me wondering if I know more than the book or if I'm just not understanding the course, hardly giving me confidence for the exam.
I know this is a first edition but surely the writers aren't using me as a proof reader. There is a list of corrections on the Micrsoft Press web site but even the couple hundred contained errors hardly touch the extra errors that i've found! I have to read the book, the corrections and MSDN all at once to know what i'm reading is correct.
The book does cover VB and C# which is fine, unfortunately mixing the languages in code examples is not! The corrections site doesn't catch a lot of these errors so be careful with a second edition as it will still probably be wrong.
Even if the text is factually correct the uninspired explantions of the code are so poor I still turn to MSDN.
There isn't much choice for study guides for exam 70-536 at present so you may still have to buy this book. Just do so knowing you'll have to do a lot more work than just reading it, like reading the correct explanations, methods, events etc, somewhere else. Unfortuntely plan more time than you should have needed to.
Very much a rush job for a new exam that ultimately fails to fulfill its purpose and leaves the reader unsure about the knowledge they are trying to learn.
The book I guess covers all the required areas but in such low detail and often in way that contradicts itself and MSDN that it leaves me wondering if I know more than the book or if I'm just not understanding the course, hardly giving me confidence for the exam.
I know this is a first edition but surely the writers aren't using me as a proof reader. There is a list of corrections on the Micrsoft Press web site but even the couple hundred contained errors hardly touch the extra errors that i've found! I have to read the book, the corrections and MSDN all at once to know what i'm reading is correct.
The book does cover VB and C# which is fine, unfortunately mixing the languages in code examples is not! The corrections site doesn't catch a lot of these errors so be careful with a second edition as it will still probably be wrong.
Even if the text is factually correct the uninspired explantions of the code are so poor I still turn to MSDN.
There isn't much choice for study guides for exam 70-536 at present so you may still have to buy this book. Just do so knowing you'll have to do a lot more work than just reading it, like reading the correct explanations, methods, events etc, somewhere else. Unfortuntely plan more time than you should have needed to.
Very much a rush job for a new exam that ultimately fails to fulfill its purpose and leaves the reader unsure about the knowledge they are trying to learn.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Some of the information in this book is just plain wrong - I hope the examination doesn't use it as a definitive guide! The chapter on serialization contains some glaring inaccurancies regarding serialization events. My advice is to verify some of the statements for those areas you are unfamiliar with.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book seems to be split into good chapters, with a logical progression through to the end.
However, I don't think that I have ever experienced a technical book with so many errors. I'm not talking factual errors, I'm talking about simple copy and paste errors. If you consider that this book is a combined work of 3 people, also adding to that the technical editor - this is 4 people that should have proof read the book. Unacceptable. To start a section titled 'Creating an installer', with the text 'You can configure application domains to create....' and then continue with a 6 line paragraph that has been copied verbatim from the previous chapter is absolutely shocking, and should never have got past any form of review.
For reference, the Microsoft Knowledge Base articles for the corrections for this book are KB923018 and KB935218.
If you are looking for a book for this exam, I would suggest looking at Amit Kalani's offering - as in my previous experience, his books have been excellent quality.
However, I don't think that I have ever experienced a technical book with so many errors. I'm not talking factual errors, I'm talking about simple copy and paste errors. If you consider that this book is a combined work of 3 people, also adding to that the technical editor - this is 4 people that should have proof read the book. Unacceptable. To start a section titled 'Creating an installer', with the text 'You can configure application domains to create....' and then continue with a 6 line paragraph that has been copied verbatim from the previous chapter is absolutely shocking, and should never have got past any form of review.
For reference, the Microsoft Knowledge Base articles for the corrections for this book are KB923018 and KB935218.
If you are looking for a book for this exam, I would suggest looking at Amit Kalani's offering - as in my previous experience, his books have been excellent quality.
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I heard there is a Second Edition of this book, I hope for the readers sake's its a complete rewrite. Read more
Published 16 months ago by MullerWmmm
Poor
How on earth are you supposed to prepare for an exam using a book full of glaring inacurracies and errors? Read more
Published on 22 Nov 2008 by Bargin Hunter
Riddled with errors and inconsistent
I've been developing .Net applications since version 1.0 and wanted to use this book to polish what I know and fill in any gaps. Read more
Published on 28 Mar 2008 by RDP
Most errors I've seen in a technical book
This book has an unbelievable amount of errors, Microsoft's website has to give 4 separate errata web pages for the 214 errors they admit to in this book - and I still found more... Read more
Published on 10 Mar 2008 by Barry
Good Table of Contents
Only useful for the table of contents as a guide of what to revise. The book will give you a decent overview, but it has quite afew mistakes and makes some areas unnecessarily... Read more
Published on 18 Dec 2007 by Bosh
Excellent source for general framework fundamentals.
I've been using C# for about 4 years and took the exam in Feb 2007.
I found this book *excellent*. Read more
I found this book *excellent*. Read more
Published on 4 Aug 2007 by Dominicz
The worst book I have ever, ever, ever read. Ever.
Please do not waste your money buying this book or more importantly do not waste your time reading it. Read more
Published on 22 July 2007 by J. Atkins
Got me through the exam
I have recently passed the exam having gone through the book and completed the exercises.
The book is mostly well written however I had to do some additional reading on... Read more
The book is mostly well written however I had to do some additional reading on... Read more
Published on 27 Dec 2006 by A. Bhadeshia
Quite good, got me through the exam!
I think the format of the book is generally good. The content is reasonable for a book of its kind although I came across exam questions that I feel the book did not prepare me... Read more
Published on 12 Dec 2006 by Eric L.
Decent for an exam guide
I've found the book to be a decent exam guide, it covers all areas of the framework, gives fairly decent practice exercises and good test exams - I don't think you can ask much... Read more
Published on 13 Nov 2006 by Greg Alwart
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