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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.

Your kit includes:

• 15% exam discount from Microsoft. Offer expires 12/31/10. Details inside.
• 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.
• Fully searchable eBook.

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Written in a cookbook style, this book offers solutions using a recipe-based approach. Each recipe contains step-by-step instructions followed by an analysis of what was done in each task and other useful information. The cookbook approach means you can dive into whatever recipes you want in no particular order. This book is for ASP.NET developers who want to learn ASP.NET and jQuery integration. The book assumes you have prior experience of developing web applications using ASP.NET, C#, Visual Studio, and jQuery. As this book targets readers of various experience levels, you will find useful recipes regardless of your skill level.

ASP.NET 2.0 is Microsoft's principal standard for creating dynamic web pages on the Windows platform. ASP.NET 2.0 boasts a range of important new features that make it superior to any Windows web-presentation technology that has come before it. A few of these are:

• Masterpages let you define your sites look and feel once and apply it across all your web forms.
• Themes and skins make for easy customization of your sites look and feel. Generics these much vaunted new additions to the .NET Framework allow you to create a data structure without committing to a specific data type they’ll revolutionize the way you code
• Personalization ASP.NET 2.0 makes it easier than ever before to create customized experiences tailored for individual users.

These, combined with improvements in everything from speed (ASP.NET 2.0 pages are faster to both write and serve), administration , data access, security and scalability make ASP.NET 2.0 the leading force in .NET web development.

Seasoned .NET professionals Matthew MacDonald and Mario Szpuszta explain how you can get the most from this ground-breaking new technology. They cover ASP.NET 2.0 as a whole, illustrating both the brand-new features and the functionality carried over from previous versions of ASP. This book will give you the knowledge you need to code real ASP.NET 2.0 application in the best possible style.

ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results helps you quickly create dynamic Web pages with ASP.NET 2.0. The book is centered around a dozen ready-to-use projects with all the code for all the projects included on the books CD-ROM - that you can use immediately. ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results dives into working code so you can learn it rapidly. The book and projects are written for intermediate-level programmers with some .NET experience. The projects and book provide a quick start reference so you can use ASP.NET 2.0 immediately.

Each of the 12 project features step-by-step set-up instructions with a description of each project that enables you to understand and then modify it so you can reuse it in different situations.

The 12 projects covered in the book with complete source-code on the CD are:

• Online diary and organizer
• File share
• Chat server
• Survey engine
• CMS
• Blog
• Photo album
• Customer support site
• WebShop
• Appointment booking system
• Greeting cards
• Bug base

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

The most up-to-date and comprehensive introductory ASP.NET book you’ll find on any shelf, Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 in VB 2005 guides you through Microsoft's technology for building dynamic websites. You’ll learn to build dynamic web pages quickly, with only basic prior knowledge of Visual Basic. Included is thorough coverage of ASP.NET, to guide you from your first steps to advanced techniques like querying databases from within a web page and performance-tuning your site.

This book includes best practices and comprehensive discussions about key database and XML principles, which are essential for you to become effective with ASP.NET. The book also emphasizes the invaluable coding techniques of object orientation and code behind, which will enable you to build real-world websites immediately rather than just scraping by with simplified coding practices. By the time you’ve finished this book, you will have mastered the core techniques and possess the necessary knowledge to begin work as a professional ASP.NET developer.

The first book on the shelf to cover Sitecore development

Sitecore is the leading provider of .NET CMS software and, as such, helps businesses increase revenue and decrease costs. This authoritative guide walks you through the process of creating a Sitecore web site. You'll discover how to handle the initial installation, take a look at the .Net development process, learn how to use the APIs, and finally deploy the site. Using a linear approach, this book guides you through the entire Sitecore process from start to finish.

• Introduces you to the process of creating a Sitecore web site so you can help your business increase revenue and decrease costs
• Addresses installing and configuring Sitecore
• Discusses .Net development, including setting up the environment and creating layouts and sub-layoutsReviews using the content API and layers
• Touches on some of the more advanced features of Sitecore, including other APIs, pipelines, and configuration files
• Serves as the official Sitecore development book

If you're looking for a solution for web content management, then Sitecore is your answer and this book will get you started using this valuable software today.