Essential Windows Phone 8 (Microsoft Windows Development Series)

Shawn Wildermuth

Addison-Wesley Professional

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: <ul>
<li>Use system types, collections, and generics to help manage data</li> <li>Validate input, reformat text, and extract data with regular expressions</li> <li>Develop services, application domains, and multithreaded applications</li> <li>Enhance your application by adding graphics and images</li> <li>Implement code access security, role-based security, and data encryption</li> <li>Work with serialization and reflection techniques</li> <li>Instrument your applications with logging and tracing</li> <li>Interact with legacy code using COM Interop and PInvoke</li> </ul>
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: <ul>
<li>15% exam discount from Microsoft. (Limited time offer). Details inside. </li> <li>Official self-paced study guide.</li> <li>Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results.</li> <li>450 practice and review questions.</li> <li>Case scenarios and lab exercises.</li> <li>Code samples on CD.</li> <li>90-day evaluation version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition.</li> <li>Fully searchable eBook.</li> </ul>
A Note Regarding the CD or DVD The print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via O'Reilly Media's Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit O'Reilly's web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com.

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

Computers & Technology

Tony Northrup

Bill Ryan

Certification

Microsoft Press

EXAM PREP GUIDE Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCPD Exam 70-547—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: <ul>
<li>Evaluate Web application requirements and build a validation prototype</li> <li>Use style sheets, master pages, Web parts, and user controls for a consistent UI </li> <li>Design, develop, and implement application components </li> <li>Develop mechanisms for data access, exception handing, event logging, and application feedback</li> <li>Define, assess, and implement a testing strategy</li> <li>Validate a deployment plan and determine readiness</li> </ul>
PRACTICE TESTS Assess your skills with practice tests. 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: <ul>
<li>Official self-paced study guide.</li> <li>Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results.</li> <li>375+ practice and review questions.</li> <li>Case scenarios and lab exercises.</li> <li>Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C# code samples on CD.</li> <li>90-day evaluation version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition.</li> <li>Fully searchable eBook of this guide.</li> </ul>
For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.

MCPD Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-547): Designing and Developing Web-Based Applications Using the Microsoft .NET Framework

Bruce Johnson

Sara Morgan

Mike Snell

Brian C. Lanham

EXAM PREP GUIDES Ace your preparation for the skills measured by the three required MCPD: Windows Developer exams—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. 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. Maximize your exam performance with preparation for: EXAM 70-536 Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0—Application Development Foundation <ul>
<li>Use types, collections, and generics to manage data</li> <li>Validate input and reformat text</li> <li>Develop services, application domains, and multithreaded applications</li> <li>Implement Code Access Security, role-based security, and data encryption</li> <li>Work with serialization and reflection techniques</li> <li>Instrument applications with logging and tracing</li> <li>Interact with legacy code using COM Interop and PInvoke</li> </ul>
EXAM 70-526 Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Windows-Based Client Development <ul>
<li>Configure Windows Forms and manage layout of the user interface</li> <li>Create lists, buttons, tool strips, and menus</li> <li>Set up and manage connections to databases </li> <li>Implement data-bound controls to display information to users</li> <li>Read, validate, and write XML</li> <li>Enhance usability, accessibility, and user assistance </li> <li>Use ClickOnce to configure installation and deployment</li> </ul>
EXAM 70-548 Designing and Developing Windows-Based Applications Using the Microsoft .NET Framework <ul>
<li>Build and validate a Windows client application prototype</li> <li>Create a consistent user interface using MDI, SDI, and control grouping</li> <li>Design, develop, and implement Windows client application components</li> <li>Develop mechanisms for data access, exception handing, event logging, and application feedback</li> <li>Define, assess, and implement a testing strategy</li> <li>Validate a deployment plan to determine readiness</li> </ul>
Your all-in-one kit includes: <ul>
<li>Official self-paced study guides for three required exams. </li> <li>Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results.</li> <li>1275+ practice and review questions.</li> <li>Case scenarios and lab exercises.</li> <li>Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C# code samples on CD.</li> <li>Fully searchable eBooks for all three guides.</li> For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.</ul>

MCPD Self-Paced Training Kit (Exams 70-536, 70-526, 70-548): Microsoft® .NET Framework Windows® Developer Core Requirements: Microsoft(r) .Net Framework Windows(r) Developer Core Requirements

EXAM PREP GUIDE Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-561—and 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: <ul>
<li>Connect to data sources; query and retrieve data</li> <li>Manage data integrity and transactions</li> <li>Use LINQ to query data across types, including XML</li> <li>Work with DataSets and in-memory stores</li> <li>Synchronize data—including smart-caching strategies</li> <li>Generate an EDM using the Entity Framework</li> <li>Use ADO.NET Data Services for Internet applications</li> </ul>
PRACTICE TESTS 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 answers—including a customized learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies. Your kit includes: <ul>
<li>15% exam discount from Microsoft. (Limited time offer). Details inside. </li> <li>Official self-paced study guide. </li> <li>Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results. </li> <li>240+ practice and review questions. </li> <li>Code samples in Microsoft Visual Basic® and Visual C#® on CD. </li> <li>90-day trial of Microsoft Visual Studio® 2008 Professional Edition. </li> <li>Fully searchable eBook of this guide.</li> </ul>
A Note Regarding the CD or DVD The print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via O'Reilly Media's Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit O'Reilly's web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com.

MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-561): Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.5—ADO.NET Application Development

Jim Wightman

Mark Blomsma

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