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Your 2-in-1 Self-Paced Training Kit. Fully updated and revised! Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-536—and on the job. With this official Microsoft study guide, you’ll work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then reinforce and apply what you’ve learned through real-world case scenarios and practice exercises. Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to: Develop applications that use system types and collections Validate input, reformat text, and extract data with regular expressions Create services and multi-threaded applications Implement code-access security and role-based security Implement serialization to read and write complex objects Leverage legacy code using interoperability Monitor and troubleshoot applications Create applications for a global audience PRACTICE TESTSAssess 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 12/31/13. Official self-paced study guide. Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results. 300+ practice and review questions. Code samples in Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C# on CD. Case scenarios, exercises, and best practices. 90-day evaluation of Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2008. Fully searchable eBook of this guide.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #995 in Books
• Published on: 2008-11-26
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 794 pages

Customer Reviews

A fair guide for the exam, but fall short on details
This book covers most of the exam topics, but it covers the breadth rather the depth of the skills. If you don't know any guides other than the "Skills Measured" info on Microsoft Learning site, this book gives you an idea of the whole scope of the exam. A few technical descriptions on certain topics are conflicting MSDN info a bit, but they are minor glitches. It's worth to read the whole book fast and all the exercises and labs assigned, and then spend half of your time concentrating on the mock exam questions that comes with the book. Put your effort on the mock exam and try to understand the technologies behind EACH question, and the reason why one answer is correct and other answers are wrong. Always reference back to the MSDN for details. A few questions give you incorrect/confusing answers. After you finish the book, you should get a score around 60%. Review each questions and answers until you understand them all and redo the exam until you have a final score of 90% should guarantee a pass in the real exam. Remind you, the real exam is harder than the mock exam. Since this book is an upgrade from the old .Net v2 exam, a fair part of the book and the mock exam questions still mention .Net v2 technologies. You can put less efforts on to those parts. On the whole,

70-536 is the same for VS 2005 or VS2008 track
Excellent Book that covers .Net Base technologies common to both .net 2 and 3. Exam 70-536 is the same for VS 2005 or VS2008 track. And is language independent. As a reminder .net 3 , 3.5 and 3.5 Sp1 are modules built on top of .net 2 CLR. VS 2005 has C# and VB compilers for .net 2 and will not compile `Language Extensions' based on .Net 3 or higher. But you can code the .net 3 modules without language extensions. Bottom line its common exam for either track.

Review
Good book. Used it to pass the exam and now I'm keeping it as a reference.