Product Description
Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-505and on the job. 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. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help you make the most of your study time.
Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to:
- Create the user interface, configuring controls at design or run time
- Apply best practices for UI design
- Access, query, bind, and display data
- Enhance usabilityMDIs, drag-and-drop, persistence, accessibility
- Manage the print process
- Use asynchronous methods to optimize UI responsiveness
- Develop custom Windows Forms controls
- Configure and deploy your application
Assess your skills with the 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 answersincluding 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. Details inside.
- 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.
- 90-day trial of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition.
- Case scenarios, exercises, and best practices.
- Fully searchable eBook of this guide.
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It took almost a month for me to get this item. That being said, it was in excellent condition and I would do business with seller again.
Amazon User Rating: 4 / 5
This book is similar with MS-TrainingKit (FW-2.0) 70-526. The few chapters and lessons are similar, new lesson in chapter 6 for LINQ. I took exam. This book is insufficiently for taking the 70-505. Some chapters are more better described in MS TrainingKit 70-526 (.Net 2.0) and 70-561(Ado.net -3.5).Read MSDN too.
Amazon User Rating: 3 / 5
If you are looking for brevity in ‘MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-505): Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5-Windows Forms Application Development: Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 Windows Forms Application Development’ you won’t find it. Clocking in at a whopping 750+ pages, this guide to Windows Forms Development covers all the basics, and then goes far beyond it. I would usually give 5 stars for an effort like this, but for Exam prep, give me everything I need, nothing I don’t. Also, give it to me in the smallest form possible, so I can get to taking the test instead of cramming for it.
Having said that, this book does what it needs to. Chapters in the book are:
01. Windows Forms basics
02. Creating the User Interface
03. Advanced Controls
04. Tool Strips, Menus, Events
05. Connecting to Data
06. Working With Data in a Connected Environment
07. Working With Data in a Disconnected Environment
08. Data-Bound Controls
09. XML
10. Printing
11. Advanced Topics
12. Enhancing Usability
13. Asynchronous Programming Techniques
14. Creating Windows Form Controls
15. Deployment
If you need a book to help pass the 70-505 test, this will certainly help you do that. Its a bit long in the tooth, but that shouldn’t stop you from buying this at all.
**** RECOMMENDED
Amazon User Rating: 4 / 5
While certainly not a comprehensive reference on .NET 3.5 Windows Forms development, this book is an adequate introduction to the material to begin studying for the 70-505 exam.
Each chapter presents a different section of the Skills measured for the exam. These are broken into easily understandable lesson text followed by lab exercises. This combination leaves the reader with a functional understanding of the material that can be built upon by further software development and referencing the Microsoft material online.
I find this approach advantageous because the concept oriented chapters provide a structure to include some best practices, performance, and maintenance topics that are often missing in strictly task or reference oriented documentation.
After passing the exam, this book is still a good reference for reviewing skills that aren’t generally utilized in one’s day to day programming activities.
Although the book is a good start to prepare for the exam, I think it is not comprehensive enough to be the only resource used.
Amazon User Rating: 3 / 5
I’ll keep this short: The book doesn’t cover everything, nor does it cover the included topics in depth. However it’s strongest attribute is that it’s written in a style that keeps the information concise.
The target-audience of the book is a developer who has at least a year’s experience in WinForms–so much of the book should be review for you. This book does a good job of being fairly up-front with indicating whether you should be reading a lesson in-depth or skimming over it.
My only warning to readers is that you should at least read the description of *every* Excercise at the end of the lession. The Lesson text doesn’t always tell you the list of what the excercises cover, and in some cases (esp. with the very short lessons) the excercises contain additional info that’s useful. As always test takers should also pull up the exam guidelines of Microsoft Learning and make sure you are aware of the topics at the time of your testing.
Amazon User Rating: 4 / 5