MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-536): Microsoft® .NET Framework - Application Development , 1st Edition

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By Tony Northrup

Publisher: Microsoft Press

Released: November 2008

Pages: 832

Your 2-in-1 Self-Paced Training Kit. Fully updated and revised! Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-536—and on the job. With this official Microsoft study guide, you’ll 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.

Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to:

Develop applications that use system types and collections
Validate input, reformat text, and extract data with regular expressions
Create services and multi-threaded applications
Implement code-access security and role-based security
Implement serialization to read and write complex objects
Leverage legacy code using interoperability
Monitor and troubleshoot applications
Create applications for a global audience

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.

Your kit includes:

15% exam discount from Microsoft. Offer expires 12/31/13.
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.
Case scenarios, exercises, and best practices.
90-day evaluation of Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2008.
Fully searchable eBook of this guide.

A Note Regarding the CD or DVD

The practice test materials are available as a download along with your ebook version of the kit, and will be located in your account. Please direct any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com.

Chapter 1 Framework Fundamentals
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Using Value Types
3. How to Create Enumerations
4. Lesson Summary
5. Lesson 2: Using Common Reference Types
6. Lesson 3: Constructing Classes
7. What Is Inheritance?
8. Lesson 4: Converting Between Types
9. Chapter Review
10. Chapter Summary
11. Key Terms
12. Case Scenario
13. Suggested Practices
14. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 2 Input/Output
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Working with the File System
3. Lesson 2: Reading and Writing Files and Streams
4. Chapter Review
5. Chapter Summary
6. Key Terms
7. Case Scenarios
8. Suggested Practices
9. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 3 Searching, Modifying, and Encoding Text
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Forming Regular Expressions
3. Lesson Summary
4. Lesson Review
5. Lesson 2: Encoding and Decoding
6. Chapter Review
7. Chapter Summary
8. Key Terms
9. Case Scenarios
10. Suggested Practices
11. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 4 Collections and Generics
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Collections and Dictionaries
3. Lesson 2: Generic Collections
4. Chapter Review
5. Chapter Summary
6. Key Terms
7. Case Scenarios
8. Suggested Practices
9. 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. How to Specify the Location and Size of Controls
4. How to Specify the Color of Controls
5. Lesson 2: Working with Images
6. Lesson 3: Formatting Text
7. Chapter Review
8. Chapter Summary
9. Key Terms
10. Case Scenarios
11. Suggested Practices
12. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 7 Threading
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Starting Multiple Threads
3. Lesson 2: Managing Threads
4. Chapter Review
5. Chapter Summary
6. Key Terms
7. Case Scenarios
8. Suggested Practices
9. 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: Configuring Applications
3. Lesson 2: Configuring the .NET Framework
4. Lesson 3: Installing Applications
5. Chapter Review
6. Chapter Summary
7. Key Terms
8. Case Scenarios
9. Suggested Practices
10. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 10 Logging and Systems Management
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Logging Application State
3. Lesson 2: Working with Performance Counters
4. Lesson 3: Managing Computers
5. Chapter Review
6. Chapter Summary
7. Key Terms
8. Case Scenarios
9. Suggested Practices
10. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 11 Application Security
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Understanding CAS
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 Interoperating with COM
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Using COM Components from the .NET Framework
3. Lesson 2: Using .NET Types from COM Applications
4. Chapter Review
5. Chapter Summary
6. Key Terms
7. Case Scenarios
8. Suggested Practices
9. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 14 Reflection
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Using Reflection
3. Chapter Review
4. Chapter Summary
5. Key Terms
6. Case Scenarios
7. Suggested Practices
8. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 15 Mail
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Creating an E-mail Message
3. Lesson 2: Sending E-mail
4. Chapter Review
5. Chapter Summary
6. Key Terms
7. Case Scenario
8. Suggested Practices
9. Take a Practice Test
Chapter 16 Globalization
1. Before You Begin
2. Lesson 1: Formatting Data for Globalization
3. Chapter Review
4. Chapter Summary
5. Key Terms
6. Case Scenario
7. Suggested Practices
8. 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
Glossary
Appendix System Requirements
1. Hardware Requirements
2. Software Requirements
Appendix Additional Resources for Developers from Microsoft Press
1. Visual Basic
2. Visual C#
3. Web Development
4. Data Access
5. .NET Framework
6. Other Developer Topics
Appendix Get Certified—Visual Studio 2008

Title:

MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-536): Microsoft® .NET Framework - Application Development , 1st Edition

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Tony Northrup

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Microsoft Press

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Luego de muchos años de experiencia decidi iniciar a estudiar con mucho juicio para presentar el examen 70-536 el cual es base para iniciar el ciclo de certificaciones en desarrollo sobre .NET, y que mejor que iniciar con el libro oficial de MS Press. Al iniciar a leer pense que estaba mejor preparado para el examen pero descubrir un centenar de temas que no conocia y ni habia escuchado, así que esto me motivo mucho a leer con más pasion.
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To produce a book that adequately prepares you for the 70-536 exam is no easy task, and I feel that Tony's work is commendable. The book is technical and detailed, and, together with the lesson reviews, chapter summaries, labs and practice questions, is comprehensive. The code examples are very useful, as are Tony's 'Real World' comments.The technical editing is lacking though, with numerous errors in the text and questions, which could leave you second-guessing yourself in the exam. The errata page (on this website) has numerous entries (submitted by readers) that have not as yet (Nov 2010) been confirmed by Microsoft Press, which shows lack of support for their product.

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Chapter 1 Framework Fundamentals

Before You Begin

Lesson 1: Using Value Types

How to Create Enumerations

Lesson Summary

Lesson 2: Using Common Reference Types

Lesson 3: Constructing Classes

What Is Inheritance?

Lesson 4: Converting Between Types

Chapter Review

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Case Scenario

Suggested Practices

Take a Practice Test

Chapter 2 Input/Output

Before You Begin

Lesson 1: Working with the File System

Lesson 2: Reading and Writing Files and Streams

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 Summary

Lesson Review

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: Collections and Dictionaries

Lesson 2: 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

How to Specify the Location and Size of Controls

How to Specify the Color of Controls

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: Starting Multiple Threads

Lesson 2: Managing Threads

Chapter Review

Chapter Summary

Key Terms

Case Scenarios

Suggested Practices