Book Description
Four kits in one! Get self-paced preparation for the skills measured by the MCAD and MCSD core exams—all in one box. This set covers Exams 70-300, 70-305/70-315, 70-306/70-316, and 70-310/70-320, and it features rigorous practice tests and review.

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The Barnes & Noble Review
This definitive ￯﾿ﾽstraight-from-Microsoft￯﾿ﾽ package includes everything you need to prepare for your MCAD in .NET development, your MCSD, or both.

The package has been thoroughly updated for Visual Studio .NET 2003 and .NET 1.1, but it also covers the ￯﾿ﾽ2002￯﾿ﾽ exams that may still be available when you read this. You get four books, one for every MCSD core requirement exam: Web Development (70-305/315), Windows Development (70-306/316), XML Web Services and Server Components (70-310/320), and .NET Solution Architectures (70-300).

Each book is organized around a series of lessons and detailed lab exercises, with extensive ￯﾿ﾽside-by-side￯﾿ﾽ C# and VB.NET code examples that run the gamut of .NET development. For instance, the web application prep guide walks you through everything from building web-based text editors to deploying across web ￯﾿ﾽgardens￯﾿ﾽ and ￯﾿ﾽfarms,￯﾿ﾽ while the XML guide￯﾿ﾽs labs look at tasks as diverse as creating web services, implementing transactions, and using asynchronous methods and SOAP extensions.

The .NET ￯﾿ﾽsolution architectures￯﾿ﾽ review guide covers all the high-level tasks involved in building effective enterprise applications: envisioning concept and scope, gathering and assessing requirements, UML modeling, creating functional specs, translating specs into logical designs, defining tiers, and even planning deployment and maintenance.

The accompanying CD-ROM contains 550 practice Q&As, all code from all four books, and each book in searchable e-format. A second CD-ROM contains a 60-day trial version of Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional. You also get Pearson VUE discount coupons worth up to $75 when you actually sit for your exams: discounts that make this package far more affordable. Bill Camarda