MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-536): Microsoft® .NET Framework 2.0—Application Development Foundation

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By Tony Northrup, Shawn Wildermuth, Bill Ryan

Publisher: Microsoft Press

Released: May 2006

Pages: 1088

Exam Prep Guide

Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-536—and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce what you’ve learned by applying your knowledge to real-world case scenarios and labs. 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:

Use system types, collections, and generics to help manage data
Validate input, reformat text, and extract data with regular expressions
Develop services, application domains, and multithreaded applications
Enhance your application by adding graphics and images
Implement code access security, role-based security, and data encryption
Work with serialization and reflection techniques
Instrument your applications with logging and tracing
Interact with legacy code using COM Interop and PInvoke

Practice Tests

Assess 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.

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Official self-paced study guide.
Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results.
450 practice and review questions.
Case scenarios and lab exercises.
Code samples on CD.
90-day evaluation version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition.
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Chapter 1 Framework Fundamentals
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Using Value Types
3. Lesson 2: Using Common Reference Types
4. Lesson 3: Constructing Classes
5. Lesson 4: Converting Between Types
6. Chapter Review
7. Chapter Summary
8. Key Terms
9. Case Scenario
10. Suggested Practices
11. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 2 Input/Output (I/O)
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Navigating the File System
3. Lesson 2: Reading and Writing Files
4. Lesson 3: Compressing Streams
5. Lesson 4: Working with Isolated Storage
6. Chapter Review
7. Chapter Summary
8. Key Terms
9. Case Scenarios
10. Suggested Practices
11. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 3 Searching, Modifying, and Encoding Text
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Forming Regular Expressions
3. Lesson 2: Encoding and Decoding
4. Chapter Review
5. Chapter Summary
6. Key Terms
7. Case Scenarios
8. Suggested Practices
9. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 4 Collections and Generics
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Collecting Data Items
3. Lesson 2: Working with Sequential Lists
4. Lesson 3: Working with Dictionaries
5. Lesson 4: Using Specialized Collections
6. Lesson 5: Generic Collections
7. Chapter Review
8. Chapter Summary
9. Key Terms
10. Case Scenarios
11. Suggested Practices
12. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 5 Serialization
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Serializing Objects
3. Lesson 2: XML Serialization
4. Lesson 3: Custom Serialization
5. Chapter Review
6. Chapter Summary
7. Key Terms
8. Case Scenarios
9. Suggested Practices
10. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 6 Graphics
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Drawing Graphics
3. Lesson 2: Working with Images
4. Lesson 3: Formatting Text
5. Chapter Review
6. Chapter Summary
7. Key Terms
8. Case Scenarios
9. Suggested Practices
10. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 7 Threading
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Creating Threads
3. Lesson 2: Sharing Data
4. Lesson 3: The Asynchronous Programming Model
5. Chapter Review
6. Chapter Summary
7. Key Terms
8. Case Scenarios
9. Suggested Practices
10. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 8 Application Domains and Services
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Creating Application Domains
3. Lesson 2: Configuring Application Domains
4. Lesson 3: Creating Windows Services
5. Chapter Review
6. Chapter Summary
7. Key Terms
8. Case Scenarios
9. Suggested Practices
10. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 9 Installing and Configuring Applications
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Configuration Settings
3. Lesson 2: Creating an Installer
4. Lesson 3: Using the .NET Framework 2.0 Configuration Tool
5. Lesson 4: Configuration Management
6. Chapter Review
7. Chapter Summary
8. Key Terms
9. Case Scenario: Installing and Configuring a New Application
10. Suggested Practices
11. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 10 Instrumentation
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Logging Events
3. Lesson 2: Debugging and Tracing
4. Lesson 3: Monitoring Performance
5. Lesson 4: Detecting Management Events
6. Chapter Review
7. Chapter Summary
8. Key Terms
9. Case Scenario
10. Suggested Practices
11. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 11 Application Security
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Understanding Code Access Security
3. Lesson 2: Using Declarative Security to Protect Assemblies
4. Lesson 3: Using Declarative and Imperative Security to Protect Methods
5. Chapter Review
6. Chapter Summary
7. Key Terms
8. Case Scenarios
9. Suggested Practices
10. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 12 User and Data Security
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Authenticating and Authorizing Users
3. Lesson 2: Using Access Control Lists
4. Lesson 3: Encrypting and Decrypting Data
5. Chapter Review
6. Chapter Summary
7. Key Terms
8. Case Scenarios
9. Suggested Practices
10. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 13 Interoperation
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Using COM Objects
3. Lesson 2: Exposing .NET Components to COM
4. Lesson 3: Using Unmanaged Code
5. Chapter Review
6. Chapter Summary
7. Key Terms
8. Case Scenario: Incorporating Legacy Code into a .NET Project
9. Suggested Practices
10. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 14 Reflection
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Understanding Reflection
3. Lesson 2: Assembly Attributes
4. Lesson 3: Reflecting Types
5. Lesson 4: Writing Dynamic Code
6. Lesson 5: Creating Code at Runtime
7. Chapter Review
8. Chapter Summary
9. Key Terms
10. Case Scenario: Create a Plugin Architecture
11. Suggested Practices
12. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 15 Mail
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Creating a Mail Message
3. Lesson 2: Sending Mail
4. Chapter Review
5. Chapter Summary
6. Key Terms
7. Case Scenario: Add E-mail Capabilities to an Existing Application
8. Suggested Practices
9. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 16 Globalization
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Using Culture Information
3. Lesson 2: Creating a Custom Culture
4. Chapter Review
5. Chapter Summary
6. Key Terms
7. Case Scenario
8. Suggested Practices
9. Take a Practice Test

Appendix Answers
1. Chapter 1: Lesson Review Answers
2. Chapter 1: Case Scenario Answers
3. Chapter 2: Lesson Review Answers
4. Chapter 2: Case Scenario Answers
5. Chapter 3: Lesson Review Answers
6. Chapter 3: Case Scenario Answers
7. Chapter 4: Lesson Review Answers
8. Chapter 4: Case Scenario Answers
9. Chapter 5: Lesson Review Answers
10. Chapter 5: Case Scenario Answers
11. Chapter 6: Lesson Review Answers
12. Chapter 6: Case Scenario Answers
13. Chapter 7: Lesson Review Answers
14. Chapter 7: Case Scenario Answers
15. Chapter 8: Lesson Review Answers
16. Chapter 8: Case Scenario Answers
17. Chapter 9: Lesson Review Answers
18. Chapter 9: Case Scenario Answers
19. Chapter 10: Lesson Review Answers
20. Chapter 10: Case Scenario Answers
21. Chapter 11: Lesson Review Answers
22. Chapter 11: Case Scenario Answers
23. Chapter 12: Lesson Review Answers
24. Chapter 12: Case Scenario Answers
25. Chapter 13: Lesson Review Answers
26. Chapter 13: Case Scenario Answers
27. Chapter 14: Lesson Review Answers
28. Chapter 14: Case Scenario Answers
29. Chapter 15: Lesson Review Answers
30. Chapter 15: Case Scenario Answers
31. Chapter 16: Lesson Review Answers
32. Chapter 16: Case Scenario Answers
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Title:

MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-536): Microsoft® .NET Framework 2.0—Application Development Foundation

By:

Tony Northrup, Shawn Wildermuth, Bill Ryan

Publisher:

Microsoft Press

Formats:

Print
Safari Books Online

Print:

May 2006

Pages:

1088

Print ISBN:

978-0-7356-2277-7

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0-7356-2277-9

Tony Northrup

Tony Northrup, MCTS, MCSE, CISP, MVP, is a networking consultant and coauthor of Windows Server 2008 Networking and Network Access Protection (NAP).

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Shawn Wildermuth

I am a Microsoft C# MVP and the founder of Wildermuth Consulting Services, LLC, a company that is dedicated to delivering software and training solutions in the Atlanta, Georgia area. I am also a speaker on the INEA Speaker's Bureau and have appeared at several national conferences to speak on a variety of subjects. I am the author of the book "Pragmatic ADO.NET", the upcoming "Prescriptive Data Architectures", both for Addison-Wesley as well as co-author of several certification books for Microsoft Press. I have been writing articles for a number of years for a variety of magazines and websites, including MSDN, MSDN Online, DevSource, The ServerSide .NET, ONDotNet.com and Intel's Rich Client Series. I have enjoyed building data-driven software for more than twenty years.

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Bill Ryan

Bill Ryan is an MVP for Windows Embedded and a frequent speaker at industry events including Microsoft Code Camps and .NET User’s Groups. GrandMasters is an IT consulting firm specializing in content development, exam development, and customized technical support.

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Chapter 1 Framework Fundamentals

Before You Begin

Lesson 1: Using Value Types

Lesson 2: Using Common Reference Types

Lesson 3: Constructing Classes

Lesson 4: Converting Between Types

Chapter Review

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Case Scenario

Suggested Practices

Take a Practice Test

Chapter 2 Input/Output (I/O)

Before You Begin

Lesson 1: Navigating the File System

Lesson 2: Reading and Writing Files

Lesson 3: Compressing Streams

Lesson 4: Working with Isolated Storage

Chapter Review

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Case Scenarios

Suggested Practices

Take a Practice Test

Chapter 3 Searching, Modifying, and Encoding Text

Before You Begin

Lesson 1: Forming Regular Expressions

Lesson 2: Encoding and Decoding

Chapter Review

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Case Scenarios

Suggested Practices

Take a Practice Test

Chapter 4 Collections and Generics

Before You Begin

Lesson 1: Collecting Data Items

Lesson 2: Working with Sequential Lists

Lesson 3: Working with Dictionaries

Lesson 4: Using Specialized Collections

Lesson 5: Generic Collections

Chapter Review

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Case Scenarios

Suggested Practices

Take a Practice Test

Chapter 5 Serialization

Before You Begin

Lesson 1: Serializing Objects

Lesson 2: XML Serialization

Lesson 3: Custom Serialization

Chapter Review

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Case Scenarios

Suggested Practices

Take a Practice Test

Chapter 6 Graphics

Before You Begin

Lesson 1: Drawing Graphics

Lesson 2: Working with Images

Lesson 3: Formatting Text

Chapter Review

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Case Scenarios

Suggested Practices

Take a Practice Test

Chapter 7 Threading

Before You Begin

Lesson 1: Creating Threads

Lesson 2: Sharing Data

Lesson 3: The Asynchronous Programming Model

Chapter Review

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Case Scenarios

Suggested Practices

Take a Practice Test