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MCAD/MCSD Training Guide (70-315): Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Visual C# and Visual Studio.NET
by Amit Kalani
List Price: $49.99
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ISBN: 0789728222
Publisher: Que (31 December, 2002)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 651
Average Customer Rating: 4.72 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
Best certification book by far
This book was well-rounded, organized, complete, and very much a bargain for the price compared to the Microsoft study guide. I worked through about 80% of the examples and I only found one that did not work because of a minor syntax error. The chapter questions and exercises are excellent and the review test at the end of the book and the test on the accompanying cd were also very helpful. The added plus of using this book is that you actually learn ASP.NET with C# and not just a bunch of rehashed MSDN examples that are needed to pass the exam. I passed the exam without much problem, but I'm glad I worked through so many code examples because the exam was a bit heavy on syntax. The exam wasn't a killer but it was much more difficult than the VB desktop and VB6 distributed tests, which were very much a joke. I plan on buying Kalani's C# Windows and C# web services books for those exams and I anticipate the results should be the same. Kudos to the author - he not only knows the subject matter extremely well, he can concisely and clearly explain the material. Not the same can be said for most of the authors of IT books, particularly the exam books, which are normally deplorable.
Rating: 5 out of 5
I Love This Book
This book is a clear, comprehensive and interesting guide to understanding ASP.NET. It is jam packed with explanations, exercises, review material and example questions in the style of the Microsoft exams. A word of warning - it will not teach you C#, HTML, Javascript or SQL Server, and unless you understand these first you will have problems. As stated on the cover the book is "designed for those who have at least one year of experience developing web-based applications and a working knowledge of C#.NET". I would highly recommend this book to anyone studying for MCAD/MCSD exams, or indeed to anyone who just wants to understand ASP.NET, and based upon my experience with it I will definitely be buying Amit Kalani's forthcoming book for the 70-320 Web Services exam.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Knowledge by Doing
This is a great book. I worked through every excercise and sample in the book, I passed the exam (without doing braindumps, but it probably would have been easier as the sample questions in this book are good but there's no substitute for PrepLogic etc). I can safely say "I have done that" when someone asks me about custom exceptions, asynch callbacks, creating global assemblies, etc etc. I had minor experience before starting so I found it hard going at first, that's when the Visual Studio.NET Combined Collection came in handy. If your the same then don't get to put off by the events and delegates section at the end of the first chapter, in fact it might be worth understanding the basics and coming back to it. If you want practical experience more than head knowledge, get this book. If you just want to pass the exam and struggle in a real world environment, do the brain dumps. If you want both, do both.
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