McAd / MCSD: Visual Basic .Net Windows and Web Applications Study Guide: Exams 70-305 and 70-306 [With CDROM]

by Brian Reisman and Mitch Ruebush

Here's the book you need to prepare for the Developing Web Applications (70-305) and Developing Windows-based Applications (70-306) MCAD and MCSD exams. This Study Guide provides: In-depth coverage of official exam objectives Practical information on using Visual Basic .NET to develop Windows and Web applications Hands-on exercises designed to give you the skills needed to approach the exams with confidence Authoritative coverage of all exam objectives,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0782141617
• ISBN13: 9780782141610
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Sybex
• Length: 896 Pages
• Weight: 3.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.5" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Helped me pass, but this book sent me through h*ll

I passed both exams, 305/306. This book was especially valuable in how much of asp.net + vb.net is covered. However, the book is so riddled with painfully time-consuming errors, it may not be worth buying unless the authors actively do something about erratta (sp?). I would have passed my exam a full month in advance if the editor was doing any "editing" at all. The errors I found and their approximate "cost" of my time are below. P/Invoke ex, pg 243: alias should be "MessageBoxA" - 1hr Interfaces, pg 215: Did not mention you must save your project before implementing an interface - 2hr Class library pg 215: They didnt tell you to change your project type to class library, or else you cant register for COM Interop 3hr CreateObject() pg 222: Author says no equivalent to CreateObject(), In fact this function is still available in .Net 1.1, not only that ... GetObject() is also there! 0hr Cookies, book never explains more than one way to set a cookie 1hr Web.Config pg 589 Authors did not put double quotes around word true, [identity impersonate=true], name value pairs in web.config are case sensitive and values must always have double quotes, without knowing that, cost me 4hr assembly linker utility pg370 The /c switch is missing from call to al.exe, also the word Exercise is misspelled (Excsercise) 2hr HTML Controls pg 610 Visual Studio automatically generates declarations for controls that you place on a web form, the book leaves me in the dark about this 20min Dataset pg 145 The variable dsEmp has to be *public* scope, HTML can not see into the code behind without it! 2hr Resource file pg 685 Resource file name is wrong! 2day Anonymous pg 704 If you deny anonymous [deny users="?"] and enforce integrated authentication, no login dialog appears to access virtual directory. 1hr Other more minor errors ... pg 751 #5, fs.trace.close is incorrect 1hr pg 756 #3, btsDim should not be there pg xliii, pure typo, answer should be C (globalization and localization) pg131, sqlcommandbuilder not required for typed datasets pg 412, Not actually VB.Net code, this is C# I found roughly twice as many more errors, but I quit tallying because I was basically fed up. I passed Windows with score of 875, and Web with 905, thanks in large part to this book. Outside of the typos and errors that is, it was a big help. I also used practice exams from a friend. But, I didn't need them. This book has pretty good questions that very closely resemble what you will see on the real exam. However, many practice exam questions have the wrong answer, have duplicate answers, or simply have questions that are not complete. In the latter, you just guess something and look at the explanation. If I did not have my 5+ years of previous experience in VB 6, I imagine that I would have struggled a lot with this. Maybe I would have quit. I rated this book 5 stars only because I actually passed my exam. Otherwise, I gets a zero or whatever the equivalent is. Basic Summary: A

only book needed for vb.net!

I'm going for my mcdba and I found this book to help me pass the 306 exam. All i can say is - WOW! I do have quite a few other .net books but this one leaves NOTHING out! The authors present the material in plain english and the questions at the beginning and end of each chapter really show what I need to focus on. There's plenty of pictures so I'm not left wondering what I should be clicking on and the web sites they reference are actually very useful! The authors even put in tips to avoid a sql injection attack and they have the best explanation of the web.config file I've ever seen! Get this book!!!!

Passed the 70-305 test - First Try!

Great book! Concise, logical flow and division of material, good exercises, good and lots of real-world test questions: Preliminary book and chapter test questions, end of chapter questions, a total of 4 separate sets of questions available in the testing software on the CD. (More questions overall than Transcender provides and I like Transcender). Having taken the test, I am really happy with the number and variety of the real-world test questions as that is what is primarily on the test. And of course this provides the background info for me to make better decisions within my apps.

All you need for both exams!

I just passed 70-305 and the only resource that I used was this book and VS.NET! I've written some basic programs using VB 6 and this book was great. The practice questions were immensely helpful and certainly indicative of the actual exams from Microsoft. If you are pursuing .NET certification, this book is a must have!

Excellent book

I found this book to be an excellent resource in preparation for 70-305. Before reading this book I had done some reading on .net, and some light coding. I would say I knew enough to be dangerous, but not enough to accomplish anything productive.That being said, this book covered exactly what I needed to get jump started in the language, and pass the test on my first try the next week. I was very happy with the speed that this book covered the concepts needed for the test. Although the book covers a very broad range of topics, I felt like the concepts were presented in a way that let me put it all together. Starting with language basic concepts, and data, the book then branches into windows forms, and then web forms. Security, optimization, and deployment are also covered in a good amount of detail. I would highly suggest this for the beginning to intermediate vb.net developer looking to prepare for either of these tests.