MCAD/MCSD C# (r) .NET (tm) Certification All-in-One Exam Guide (Exams 70-315, 70-316, 70-320) [Hardcover]

Kenneth S. Lind (Author), Marjorie Rempel (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0072224436 | ISBN-13: 978-0072224436 | Publication Date: September 25, 2002

"All-in-One" is all you need! This authoritative reference offers complete coverage of all material on MCAD/MCSD Visual C# .NET certification exams 70-315, 70-316, and 70-320. You'll find exam objectives at the beginning of each chapter, helpful exam tips, end-of-chapter practice questions, and photographs and illustrations. The bonus CD-ROM contains a testing engine with questions found only on the CD. This comprehensive guide not only helps you pass this challenging exam, but will also serve as an invaluable on-the-job reference.

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About the Author

Marjorie Rempel is a Microsoft Certified Trainer working as a corporate instructor for Learnix Limited. Since the mid 1990's, Marjorie has enjoyed designing and programming in Object Oriented Programming languages. Her expertise ranges from front-end applications to distributed back-end solutions. C# and VB.NET have been added to her repertoire of languages that provide well-defined multiple tiered applications.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1091 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media. (September 25, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072224436
• ISBN-13: 978-0072224436
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.7 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,392,686 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book is RIFE with errors, December 18, 2002

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"arivas77" (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MCAD/MCSD C# (r) .NET (tm) Certification All-in-One Exam Guide (Exams 70-315, 70-316, 70-320) (Hardcover)

I've read the first three chapters and am extremely frustrated by the number and blatancy of errors. For example the book states that a namespace declaration doesn't need a semicolon, but the quiz answers claim explicitly that it does.

There are many many errors in the SIMPLEST things and I don't trust the rest of this book.

** I'm adding this now that I'm on chapter 11. This is the WORST technical book I have ever read. There are errors EVERYWHERE. Blatant, stupid errors that show that the writer has NO idea what they are talking about. Full on contradictions between the text and the quiz answers are in EVERY quiz so far. How about this for a moronically incorrect history lesson, "The network designers used [TCP/IP] to provide MILNET, which initially connected the military computers and was developed into the Internet today." That is just WRONG and is tantamount to saying that chimpanzees were developed into mankind today.

And what's this:
...
catch (Xcp e)
{
Console.WriteLine(Xcp.ToString());
}
...? It's on p. 250.

Worst Book Ever.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not even good for an introduction, March 6, 2004

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dalepres "dalepres" (Park Hill, OK United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: MCAD/MCSD C# (r) .NET (tm) Certification All-in-One Exam Guide (Exams 70-315, 70-316, 70-320) (Hardcover)

Much of the book is clearly just a rephrase of specific pages of Microsoft's MSDN library which you can get free online. The diagrams, tables, content and order of the paragraphs of the book section closely match the MSDN pages with the exception that much of the critical information is left out. In many instances it is clear that the authors - and I use the term authors loosely - did not understand what they were reading on MSDN while "writing" the chapter and therefore the re-write is inaccurate. For instance, the following quote is the authors' description of the ADO.Net Persist Security Info property:

"Specifies whether sensitive security information is to be resent if a connection is reopened."

Are these people just making it up as they go along, or what? If you know anything about ADO or ADO.Net then you know that Persist Security Info only refers to whether you can, in code, retrieve the password information from the connection string of an open connection. Regardless of how Persist Security Info is set, the password is available for opening or reopening the connection.

Wait! Maybe this book was intended to be a work of fiction about C#! It's just listed in the wrong section! That would explain the authors just making it up as they went along.

As for being All-in-One, I would call it None-in-One. Many key sections of the book are incomplete and don't tell you that they're incomplete. Other sections are incomplete and tell you to read MSDN for more information. I thought that was what I bought the book for...so I wouldn't have to read the tens of thousands of pages of MSDN.

I have to wonder if the authors have ever written a C# program in Visual Studio. My guess is probably not. This is a quote from the book:

"Notice in the code generated by the Windows Forms Designer that a call to the method InitializeComponent() is made in the constructor of the form. You can then place any of your initialization code in the InitializeComponent() method."

There is no way that the authors have ever successfully done that - added initialization code in the InitializeComponent() method. Anyone who has ever written a C# program in Visual Studio.Net knows that the code in the InitializeComponent method is created by the designer and any changes you make there will be lost as soon as you make a change in the designer.

This is the second (and last) McGraw Hill/Osborne All-in-One book I have purchased. I bought a CCIE edition several years ago. It was as error-filled as this one. Many of us who have been around a long time remember when Adam Osborne was a cultural icon. It's disappointing that the books that now bear his name are not of the same caliber as the books of yesteryear.

But I am being too harsh. I should be sensitive and understanding. The authors are undoubtedly ridden with guilt over having caused hundreds or thousands of unsuspecting buyers to spend money on this book and then waste $125 each taking, and failing miserably, the Microsoft certification exams. That guilt, combined with the shame and embarrassment they feel for having created the lowest rated certification book on the topic, should be punishment enough. I should be reaching out to them, feeling their pain...

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Too many errors, December 13, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: MCAD/MCSD C# (r) .NET (tm) Certification All-in-One Exam Guide (Exams 70-315, 70-316, 70-320) (Hardcover)

I recently completed 2 Microsoft courses on C# and was hoping to use this book for review and to fill in gaps. As I read thru the first 2 chapters I came across a number of errors in the book's text, examples and sample test answers. I pulled down the book's errata from the publisher's web site and it didn't address the errors I'd seen. If I am finding undocumented and obvious errors in the introductory material then I can't rely on the information for the more complex subjects. The book simply doesn't serve its stated purpose.