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Summary: Leaning ASP.NET Basic
Comment: I have read several ASP.NET books since I have been using .NET technology 2003. I had more deep understanding about ASP.NET from reading this book than any others. Of course, it's not perfect, but you will learn lots of things from the book. A+++
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Summary: A good survey of the material
Comment: This book presents a good survey of the material covered on the exam. It is for the most part well written. There are some areas where the book seems to rely on a list of steps to take without much explanation. The one area where I was seriously unprepared was mobile controls. The book covers this topic sparingly, but my exam seemed to focus strongly on it.
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Summary: WOOHOO! PASSED ON FIRST TRY!!
Comment: The book does exactly what it promises - it covers whats going to be on the test! If you read the book from end to end; do the exercises and use the transcender tests - then you will pass with no problems. I have to stress though that you need to read and study the book! The exam covers the correct way to administrate and deploy websites and how to configure your apps for various security and user profile scenarios. It also covers those things that you'll probably never use (i.e. programming against mobile devices) but if you want to pass then you have to study up on it. Also be sure to know how to work with xml and be familiar with the xml namespace classes. Also, know your basic ado.net concepts and how to hook up your data aware controls (i.e. combobox and gridview). All of these were covered in the book. Bottom line, read the book, study it, do the transcender tests and you should pass.
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Summary: Covers material, but the 'finish' is somewhat lacking
Comment: for a $50 book, I would expect there to be very few or no typos. While definitely not the worst tech book in this regard, there are some definite 'fit and finish' issues that could be resolved by employing a stricter editor. This is particularly important when the book is centered around exam preparation.
Over all, when paired with on-the-job-experience and other tools (like Self Test Software's exam prep materials) the material in this book does a reasonable job preparing one for the exam.
As an aside, forests everywhere would breathe a sigh of relief if MSPress would just provide these training materials in electronic form (as they are on the provided CDs). The only reason I cracked the book was to retrieve the CD.
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Summary: No in-depth content, but provides very useful information
Comment: I must say I havent taken the exam yet, but I disagree with one of the users that stated that the book for the 70536 covers all you need for the exam. It will INTRODUCE you to the themes that will appear in the exam, but in no way it will prepare you 100% for the exam. (The training kit for the 70536 that is)
This book I found a lot easier to follow on my first read, than the 70536. Possibly because it's not trying to include such a vast amount of information in a 1000 page book. I still must say that there are some chapters that I didnt fully like the way they explained things, things that I already have knowledge of how they work, but just didnt like the style in which they described it. It seemed a bit confusing in my oppinion.
Apart from that, everything is quite straight forward. If you have at least 1 year experience with asp.net you should read through the first chapters quite easily.
Although it doesnt provide any tips and tricks as mentioned by other reviewers, I did find information in this book that I havent seen described properly in other asp.net books I read.
I generally enjoyed reading this book, but of course, being realistic... I have to say that the fact I enjoyed it more (compared to the 70536) is quite obvious as we are talking asp.net here and not a load of "quite boring although useful" features on the .NET framework.
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