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EXAM PREP GUIDES Ace your preparation for the skills measured by three required MCPD: Web Developer exams—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. 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. Maximize your exam performance with preparation for: EXAM 70-536 Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0—Application Development Foundation •Use types, collections, generics, and regular expressions to manage data •Develop services, application domains, and multithreaded applications •Implement code access and role-based security, and data encryption •Work with serialization and reflection techniques •Instrument applications with logging and tracing •Interact with legacy code using COM Interop and PInvoke EXAM 70-528 Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Web-Based Client Development •Create, trace, configure, and deploy Web applications •Integrate data into your application using Microsoft ADO.NET, XML, and data-bound controls •Implement forms authentication, impersonation, and login controls •Configure user controls and create custom Web controls •Use themes, user profiles, and Web parts for customizable, personalized Web sites •Manage server-side and client-side application state EXAM 70-547 Designing and Developing Web-Based Applications Using the Microsoft .NET Framework •Evaluate Web application requirements and build a validation prototype •Use style sheets, master pages, Web parts, and user controls for a consistent UI •Design, develop, and implement application components •Develop mechanisms for data access, exception handing, event logging, and application feedback •Define, assess, and implement a testing strategy •Validate a deployment plan and analyze performance to determine readiness Your all-in-one kit includes: •Official self-paced study guides for three required exams. •Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results. •1200+ practice and review questions. •Case scenarios and lab exercises. •Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C# code samples on CD. •15% exam discount from Microsoft; good for three exams. Offer expires 12/31/11. Voucher inside. •90-day evaluation version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition. •Fully searchable eBooks for all three guides. 

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #193827 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 2752 pages

About the Author
Glenn Johnson is a teacher and professional consultant. He is the author of
Programming Microsoft ADO.NET 2.0 Applications: Advanced Topics. Tony
Northrup, MCSE, CISSP, and Microsoft MVP, is a professional consultant and
writer with dozens of books to his credit. He is coauthor of the Self-Paced
Training Kits for Exams 70-270 and 70-272, among other titles. Bill Ryan is
an MVP for Windows Embedded and a frequent speaker at industry events
including Microsoft Code Camps and .NET User's Groups. Shawn Wildermuth,
MVP for Microsoft Visual C#®, has more than twenty years' experience
building data-driven software. He regularly contributes articles to several
magazines and Web sites, including MSDN®, Windows IT Pro, and MSDN Online.
Chris Williams, Bruce Johnson, Brian Lanham, and Mike Snell of
GrandMasters, an IT consulting firm, specialize in content development,
exam development, and customized technical support.

Customer Reviews

If you want to be a success you need to read these
These books are a bit difficult to read but then these are very technical books for technical people. I have read through all books in the series, taken the exams and am a much better developer for it.

The books have an excellent learning scale. Even if you are very experienced you will pick up all kinds of new things. If you want to be a good developer you HAVE to read these books and achieving the qualification sets you a huge advantage over the rest when looks for jobs.

For the other reviewer who didnt understand these books and threw them in the bin - you are exactly the kind of person who should have read them.

WARNING: These books are absolute rubbish
I'm halfway through 70-536 and these books have just gone in the bin, they're completely unusable. Riddled with more mistakes than you'd expect in a first draft, let alone a book that's supposed to have been proof read, these books make an already difficult subject impossible to learn. The final straw came with Chapter 9 (installing and configuring applications). In lesson one we're told in the "Real World" box how the this version of VS reduced a previously 5 hour job down to 15 minutes because there was no typing etc. Only to then spend an hour and a half on a lesson writing the equivalent to a Harry Potter novel. So did they show us the "old" way, or were they lying? I've no idea. Lesson 2 comes along, again, loads more typing, then when you try the exercise, turns out the file you need for it isn't there. What a complete waste of my life - don't waste yours on these books, you've been warned.