Product Description

This certification exam measures the ability to develop and implement Windows-based applications by using Windows Forms and the Microsoft .NET Framework. This exam counts as a core credit toward the new MCAD (Microsoft Certified Application Developer) certification as well as a core credit toward the existing MCSD certification. Readers preparing for this exam find our Training Guide series to be the most successful self-study tool in the market. This book is their one-stop shop because of its teaching methodology, the accompanying ExamGear testing software, and superior Web site support at www.quepublishing.com/certification. The CD features our ExamGear product (test simulation with more than 150 practice questions) and an electronic copy of the book.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #538321 in Books
• Published on: 2002-12-27
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 1200 pages

About the Author

Amit Kalani is among the first few to complete the Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) for Microsoft .NET certification.

Amit has been programming with the .NET Framework since its early beta versions. He has been a contributing author and technical reviewer for several popular books about the .NET Framework and related technologies.

In an earlier job, Amit managed a Microsoft Certified Technical Education Center (CTEC), where he designed and delivered courses on various development tools and technologies. He worked closely with students to understand their requirements, and he guided them toward passing Microsoft certification exams.

Amit lives in Michigan with his wife Priti. You can reach Amit at amit@techcontent.com.

Customer Reviews

Nearly perfect
With a strong ASP.NET background but weak Windows Forms background, I read this book, merely reading though the labs and not studying in any other way, and passed the test readily. If you are new to .NET, it's better to start with the appropriate chapters of "Programming .NET" by Prosise. But with the basics of .NET under your belt, Kalani's book is great. I would say 95% of what was on my test was well covered by this book.

Kalani makes it all seem straightforward -- which is a nice change from some other authors who would have you believe that all this new stuff is tricky. His examples are really awesome: simple enough to follow quickly, yet teach the new point decisively. I do not think a seasoned programmer can learn this stuff in a faster or clearer way. The screen shots are nice and small, so that you aren't flipping through page after page of them.

The "Apply Your Knowledge" sections at the end of each chapter are very good at stamping what you just read into your brain a little better, and to highlight some important facts that were understated or even left out of the chapter proper. (For this last reason, these sections are required reading.) The "Exam Questions" in these sections are easier than most real test questions, but that is good because their purpose is not to frustrate you but to help you lock in your knowledge. (However, I didn't even try the practice tests at the end of the book or on the CD's.)

There are maybe 100 or 200 grammatical errors, almost always dropping a word such as "the" or "a". But this is not a big deal in a book of this size, and it does not cause the reader any grief.

Even after the test, I'm glad I have this book because the excellent samples will be very handy for reference at work.

Now the one and only area where the book is weak relative to the test is on security and authentication, the last chapter. Although it is clear and very well written (other authors can make this stuff seem like Greek) there are things missing -- such as a discussion of the GenericIdentity class -- which are covered by the exam.

So I recommend getting this book (I do not think you will find a better book for passing the exam), but further augment your knowledge of security and authentication with the Microsoft documentation.

Good for learning and exam
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. This is a great book for passing the 70-316 exam (I did with this as my only book.) and for learning C#, if you already have experience with a language like Java or C.

At first I was not sure about the book because it looked weak on in-depth-ness of examples. However, I found that it took me about 180 hours of study time to get through this book and the examples were great.

There are a few mistakes in this book (maybe four I can think of), but they are minor. As usual, Que Publishing and Mr. Kalani did a great job.

I am definitely going to use the same series for the 70-315 and 70-320 exams.

Excellent prep book
I am self taught in Access VBA - so object oriented programming, C#, and even visual studio are all totally new to me. This book was able to take me from being totally stupid and get me to the point where I did very well on the exam. It is a thick book - and I did take take the time to do ALL of the exercises. I also reviewed it about 4 times (remember, this is totally new to me). I also used the Transcender practice exams. They were definitely worth the money as they were an accurate gauge of my ability to pass the exam - and the questions were similar to ones on the actual exam. The reason for the missing star is that this book does a poor job of explaining to a newbie how to handle events and how to use delegates in event handling - it assumes that you actually know something about this topic. I had to read Jesse Liberty's book - just the chapters on event handling - in order to understand this topic.

Overall, it's an excellent book that is well written. The practice exercises are educational and when I finished studying the book, I had the skill to actually create my own .net pages. I would also recommend that you actually type in all of the practice excercises (vs. using the code on the included CD) as a way to better learn the material. The other recommenation is to go to the book's website and download the errata.pdf. Some of the practice samples have updated code.