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Summary: This book is dispointing!
Comment: I have been reading this book in the past one week.
The first 5 chapters, namely, "Framework Fundamentals", "Input/Output", "Searching, Modifying and Encoding Text", "Collections and Generics" and "Serialization" are very easy to understand.
However, the chapters like "Threading", "Application Domains and Services", "Installing and Configuring Applications" are really hard to understand, I have no idea with what the author is talking about most times. As a foundation book, instead of giving a very general description about the topic and just list the members of the realted classes, I really think that the author should spend more time explaining what is it exactly, what the developer can benefit from using it and good examples are essential.
Most examples given in this book are very short and doesn't make any sense some times. We can always find the information about how to use a class, method from MSDN or other sources, but I suppose what a reader really needs are good exmaples that involve the related comcepts, classes, etc.
Anyway, I will continue to read this book as it is the only book written for the exam.
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Summary: Kit Exam 70-536 Book Too Many Errors
Comment: TOO MANY ERRORS
After reading 200 pages of this book the numerous errors was a distraction. After visting Microsoft's web site and seeing the list of corrections I felt that this book should be recall and the people who purchase this first edition should be entitle to a refund or free replacement of the copy they purchase.
DO NOT PURCHASE THIS BOOK UNTIL CORRECTION ARE MADE
WAIT FOR THE SECOND EDITION
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Summary: Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0 Foundation
Comment: The book covers key areas effeciently, especially new technologies in 2.0. I have not found content to be out of line with the same tests that I have seen. This is a good starting point for those that want to move on their MCTS and eventually their MCPD certifications.
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Summary: Too Many Errors and Inconsistencies
Comment: I'm afraid I have to go against the positive reviews and give this book one star.
The first and biggest problem I had with this book is that it does not attempt to teach you very much about the topics on the 70-536 exam. Or, perhaps it *does* make this attempt but it fails pathetically. Instead, it scratches the surface of the topics and "points you in the right direction". I'd hoped the book would take a more rigorous pedagogical approach to discussing the exam topics. Microsoft's MSDN is better at explaining the topics than this book, in my own opinion, and this is how I will study for the exam going forward.
The book is divided into chapters and each chapter has several lessons. At the end of each lesson is a set of review questions.
Here are some examples of the problems I had with the first two chapters of this book (before I decided to give up on it):
Chapter 2, Lesson 1 does *not* discuss the System.IO.File class nor does it mention System.IO.Directory, yet the very first question in that lesson's review is in regards to these two classes.
On page 56 the authors mention overriding the Parse() method to provide a conversion from Strings. Override it? Override it from what class? It's not defined in System.Object. Probably the authors mean *provide* a Parse() method.
On page 948, one of the answers to a question reads, "...when an abstract method inherited from System.Object is called." What? System.Object does not define *any* abstract methods.
There are other problems as well. Chapter 2 lists many methods on the DirectoryInfo and FileInfo classes. Sometimes the authors tell you what return types the methods have and sometimes they don't, and sometimes they are just wrong (p.92, the OpenWrite() method).
I admit I only read the first two chapters of this book but I believe it's a total waste of money. I don't understand how this book can have any positive reviews. Before you buy this book you really should spend some time looking it over at a bookstore. I wish I had.
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Summary: I passed 70-536
Comment: I've seen comments good and bad. I passed with room to spare using this book as my main guide. That's what its purpose is, and it does that well.
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