After reading all the reviews here, I decided to pick up this book as my primary study guide. And today I passed the exam! With a little luck, some experience, and the resourcefulness of this book, I steered myself through 2 grueling hours of test taking madness. These other reviewers were dead right, which is why I'm adding my five stars.Let me give some background for those who plan on taking this test. I spent about 3 weeks...
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This book was well-rounded, organized, complete, and very much a bargain for the price compared to the Microsoft study guide. I worked through about 80% of the examples and I only found one that did not work because of a minor syntax error. The chapter questions and exercises are excellent and the review test at the end of the book and the test on the accompanying cd were also very helpful. The added plus of using this...
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This book is a clear, comprehensive and interesting guide to understanding ASP.NET. It is jam packed with explanations, exercises, review material and example questions in the style of the Microsoft exams. A word of warning - it will not teach you C#, HTML, Javascript or SQL Server, and unless you understand these first you will have problems. As stated on the cover the book is "designed for those who have at least one year...
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I needed to learn ASP.NET and I want to get my Certification for MCAD. This book is the best one I have found for helping me in achieving my goals. The author did a very good job on the format of the book. Each chapter explores different areas of ASP.NET and each chapter is broken up into manageable chunks for ease of learning. This book is focused on "Active Learning". The author invites you to get involved with the learning...
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I have finally found the right book to prepare for the 70-315 exam. I am new to .NET and I passed the exam on my first attempt. At more than 1200 pages, this is real fat book and it took me whole 17 days to cover everything. The book has fifteen chapters, so I completed one chapter every day and then in the last two days, I worked through the final review section, sample questions and the difficult sections multiple times...
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