This book gives you a self-guided tour of all the areas that are covered by the Microsoft Exam 70-320: “Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Visual C# .NET and the .NET Framework”. The goal of the book is to teach you the specific skills you need to develop enterprise applications using Visual Studio .NET and Visual C# .NET, your preparation for the MCAD or MCSD for Microsoft .NET certification exam will be just 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.

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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: Exam Preparation

1.  Creating and Manipulating DataSets

2.  Accessing and Manipulating XML Data

3.  .NET Remoting

4.  Basic Web Services

5.  Advanced Web Services

6.  Windows Services

7.  Component Services

8.  Calling Unmanaged Code

9.  Testing and Debugging

10. Deployment

11. Security Issues

Part II: Final Review

1. Fast Facts

2. Practice Exam

Part V: Appendixes

1. ADO.NET Basics
2. XML Standards and Syntax
3. Glossary
4. Overview of the Certification Process
5. What’s On the CD-ROM
6. Using the PrepLogic Preview Edition Software
7. Suggested Reading and Resources

Index

Sample Chapter

Chapter 2, Accessing and Manipulating XML Data, is available for download as a PDF file. For an HTML version of this chapter follow this link to InformIT (a free registration may be required) 

Errata

Click here to access a list of errors discovered in this book after its printing

The code for all the Step By Step Examples, Guided Practice Exercises and Exercises used in the book is included in the book's CD ROM. You can also download the code here (zip file, about 3 MB). The code in this zip file is better organized to enable you to run code samples side-by-side with the code that you create by-hand as you progress through the book.

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