This book gives you a self-guided tour of all the areas that are covered by the Microsoft Exam 70-316: “Developing and Implementing Windows-based Applications with Visual C# .NET and Visual Studio .NET”. The goal of the book is to teach you the specific skills you need to develop Windows-based applications using Visual Studio .NET and Visual C# .NET, your preparation for the MCAD or MCSD for Microsoft .NET certification will just be a by-product of that goal.

Instructional Features

This book is designed to provide you with multiple ways to learn and reinforce the exam material. Here are some of the instructional features you’ll find inside:

• Objective explanations: Each chapter begins with a list of the objectives covered in the chapter. Each objective is followed by a detailed explanation that puts the objective in the context of the chapter.
  

• Study strategies: Each chapter offers a selected list of study strategies: exercises to try or additional material to read that will help you learn and retain the material in the chapter.
  

• Exam tips: Exam tips appear in the margins and provide specific exam-related advice. Exam tips address what material is likely to be covered (or not covered) on the exam, how to remember it, or particular exam quirks.
  

• Notes: Notes appear in the margins and contain various kinds of useful information, such as tips on technology, historical background, side commentary, or notes on where to go for more detailed coverage of a particular topic.
  

• Warnings: When you use sophisticated computing technology, there is always a possibility of mistakes or even catastrophes. Warnings appear in the margins and alert you of such potential problems, whether they’re in following along with the text or in implementing a solution in a production environment.
  

• Step by Step: These are hands-on, tutorial instructions that lead you through a particular task or function related to the exam objectives.
  

• Review breaks and chapter summaries: Crucial information is summarized at various points in the book, in lists of key points you need to remember. Each chapter ends with an overall summary of the material covered in that chapter as well.
  

• Guided Practice Exercises: Guided Practice Exercises offer additional opportunities to practice the material within a chapter and to learn additional facets of the topic at hand.
  

• Key terms: A list of key terms appears at the end of each chapter.
  

• Exercises: Found at the end of each chapter in the “Apply Your Knowledge” section, the exercises include additional tutorial material and more chances to practice the skills that you learned in the chapter.
  

• Review questions: These open-ended questions appear in the “Apply Your Knowledge” section at the end of each chapter. They allow you to quickly assess your comprehension of what you just read in the chapter. The answers are provided later in the section.
  

• Exam questions: These questions appear in the “Apply Your Knowledge” section. They reflect the kinds of multiple-choice questions that appear on the Microsoft exams. You should use them to practice for the exam and to help determine what you know and what you might need to review or study further. Answers and explanations are provided later in the section.
  

• Fast Facts: The Fast Facts chapter presents condensed version of the information contained in the book and is extremely useful for last-minute review.
  

• Practice Exam: A full practice test for the exam is included in this book. Questions are written in the style and format used on the actual exams. You should use the Practice Exam to assess your readiness for the real exam.
  

• PrepLogic: The PrepLogic Preview Edition software included on the CD-ROM provides further practice questions.

Quotes From Readers

"I just wanted to say that this is one of the best programming books I have ever read. I would recommend this book even to people not studying for the MCAD. For someone who knows the C# language this is the perfect book to learn how to build windows apps and to use as a reference. The examples and exercises go perfectly with the chapters to reinforce the content." 
--Dan Duda (MCSD, MCP), Peripherals Plus Technologies, Inc.

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Table of Contents

The following is a short table of contents for this book, for a detailed table of contents, download this PDF file.

Introduction

Study and Exam Preparation Tips

Part I: Developing Web Applications

1.   Introducing Windows Forms

2.   Controls

3.   Error Handling for the User Interface

4.   Creating and Managing .NET Components and Assemblies

5.   Data Binding

6.   Consuming and Manipulating Data

7.   Web Services

8.   Globalization

9.   Working with Legacy Code

10.  User Assistance and Accessibility

11.  Printing

Part II: Testing, Debugging and Deploying a Windows Application

12.  Testing and Debugging a Windows Application

13.  Deploying a Windows Application

Part III: Maintaining and Configuring a Windows Application

14.  Maintaining and Supporting a Windows Application

15.  Configuring a Windows Application

Part IV: Final Review

1.      Fast Facts

2.      Practice Exams

Part V: Appendixes

1. Glossary
2. Overview of the Certification Process
3. What’s On the CD-ROM
4. Using the PrepLogic Preview Edition Software
5. Suggested Reading and Resources

Index

Sample Chapter

Download an 88-page sampler of this book (PDF, about 1 MB). This sampler include the Chapter 3,  Error Handling for the User Interface in its entirety.

Errata

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• Index of Exercises
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