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MCAD MCSD Training Guide 70 305 Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Visual Basic NET and Visual Studio NET Training Guide
The authoritative solution to passing the 70-305 exam! * Mike Gunderloy is a leading authority on MCSD and VB.NET. * Training Guides are the most effective self-study guide in the marketplace, featuring exam tips, review exercises, case studies, practice exams, ExamGear testing software, and more. * Subjected to rigorous technical review by a team of industry experts, ensuring content is superior in both coverage and technical accuracy. This ebook does not include the CD that accompanies the print edition.
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5 Stars MCAD/MCSD Training Guide (70-305): Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Visual Basic.NET and Visual Studio.NET by M
Very good. I recd. the book on time and condition the book was excellent…
5 Stars gives you what you want..
To start with, this is the only book i read for the exam.
The objective questions at the end of each chapter, are exactly in the format that they appear in the exam. It helps you a lot in having the right mind-set, when you actually face it.
The exam covers exactly the same topics, that are emphasized in the book.
5 Stars Helped me pass the exam
This book is very well organized, has good examples, and is based very closely on the exam objectives. I had co-workers who used the Microsoft (red) books and didn’t like them who switched to this one and were much happier. Studying this book and using a Transcender practice test enabled me to pass the 305 exam. Recommended.
2 Stars Just doesn’t do it for me.
I have read plenty of programming books… ok skimmed. I really wish there was a training guide out there that would show real world scenarios. I didn’t care for the examples in this book. I learn best by doing. When I do the work I really wish I could relate using the code in my job. That would assist me in learning it more. The whole cram the book then take the test doesn’t work for me.
3 Stars A valuable book with shortcomings
This is a valuable book, it explained topics which were missing in some other books. In the other hand, the previous reviews did not mention some shortcomings in this book. The OOP part of this book is not good. The language in many parts of this book is ambiguous, it lures people to read these parts again and again, but after that the meaning is still not clear, while this repeated reading of such a big book wastes time. The sample code in this book is not available for download, although they are in the CD, but the CD is made in a mean way that the “copy” function is disabled, so this book is not good for busy people.
Beginners Guide to SQL Server Integration Services Using Visual Studio 2005
Beginners Guide to SQL Server Integration Services Using Visual Studio 2005
Sql Server Integration Services with the acronym SSIS is a comprehensive ETL tool that made its debut with SQL Server 2005. It is a tool tightly integrated with the Visual Studio 2005 having all the functionalities that its forerunner DTS (Data Transformation Services) had in SQL Server 2000. This does not mean that it is just an improvement over DTS but a product which is totally different with a vastly improved interface; an extensible architecture; an enlarged tool set; ease of integration with other SQL Server Tools such as Analysis Services; capable of supporting connectivity with third party databases and bringing into a central location many database management tasks.
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1 Star Where is the other half?
The book is pretty basic and easy to understand for creating and executing packages, but does not cover the deployment of packages. There is no mention of setting up the variables or deployment in this book. I give it a 1 star because I can create the packages, but I can’t do anything with them.
4 Stars For noobs only
If you can create an SSIS package, and understand most of what the different toolbox object are, this is not the book for you. If you don’t even know ho to create an SSIS package, and need to do so quickly, buy this book. In a couple hours, you’ll be proficient in the basics of SSIS.
Packt asked me to review this book, and their timing was perfect–I was ready to start an SSIS project but had no experience. I was a heavy DTS user, and the difference between DTS and SSIS blew my mind. The first two chapters are a reference of the different flows, transformations, sources and destinations available, and the rest of the book is essentially a workbook, full of how-to examples for very common tasks. Even if what you need to do isn’t covered,
I did hope there would be a section on the new “fuzzy” objects, but there was none. This book also does not discuss way to organize your solutions and projects, but this also was left to more advanced books.
I’ve loaned this book to several coworkers, and all have found it useful. We all came up to a basic understanding of SSIS very quickly, and have a good enough understanding to pick up more advanced examples.
4 Stars Great begginer’s guide
I recently lent this book to a DBA friend who wanted me to post his review:
SQL Server Integration Services Using Visual Studio 2005 is exactly what it claims to be; it’s a beginners guide, and a good one at that. Being an experienced SQL DBA and .NET programmer I’m familiar with the inner workings of the SQL engine, T-SQL code, and .NET code as well as how they work together in the background. I was not expecting to have this information presented in this book and it wasn’t which is good as I think it would overwhelm most beginners.
What this book did provide is a detailed explanation of the various objects and tasks that one would need to understand in order to create useful SSIS packages.
Having been burned more than once by the terrible DTS packages in SQL 2000 I have been very slow to adopt SSIS for anything, typically choosing to write elaborate T-SQL scripts. This has two problems: one is source control, the other is that they’re often too complex for Jr. admins (or non admins) to tackle. Using the various tasks demonstrated in this book it becomes possible for beginners to tackle tasks like importing and exporting data, sending emails from SQL, working with web services, and even event handling!
Whether you’re a hard-core Visual Studio user who is looking to do some work with SQL, or a newcomer to SQL itself this book will have you covered.
5 Stars good book to start developing SSIS with Visual Studio 2005
Learning SSIS is one of the most challenging skills for any developer. But this book has made it really easy for any starting developer. This book was specifically written for starting developers as it show the specific steps on how to develop an application from the scratch. Experienced developers will know a trick or two based on the things covered here. The book actually exploits all the possible functions that could be used in SSIS so experienced developers will have the chance to rediscover some of these functions and apply them to their application.
The book is written in learning stages: each part of the SSIS application along with its Visual Studio 2005 counterpart for application development is discussed. These functions are then tested to an actual application. Actual screenshots are used to give the developers an idea on how the application development progresses.
But not everything is presented at once. In the early chapters of the book, developers will first learn the basics on software development using SSIS and Visual Studio 2005. The actual use of the software development tool is presented later.
These basics are enough for the build a simple application. Once the basics are covered an exercise is presented so that developers can immediately apply what they have learned. As the chapters progresses, advanced functions and skills are presented. It is again presented through a series of screen shots so that developers could understand how it is done. Once enough information has been presented, another battery of tests so that skills will be used in the actual scenario.
If you are looking for a good book to start developing SSIS with Visual Studio 2005, this book provides a great start. This book could easily become a good reference book as the skills of the developer progresses in SSIS and Visual Studio.
5 Stars Wonderful reference if you need “Hello World” Examples
This book was worth the money for me. While I am familiar with DTS and SSIS, I’ve never used them and therefore had no experience for getting started. This book was enough to show me how to create working-though-simple SSIS packages that I can put into production in my work environment. I have yet to find a reference that was easy to read and without speed bumps from one step to the next; this book is the same in that regard. If you need everything spoon-fed to you, you may have problems. The examples are also very simple; they do not go into more advanced details and I can already see I will need more information for certain concepts. But if you need “Hello World” examples to get you going, this is the book you need. But before you do, you will need Visual Studio .NET with Business Intelligence installed an an SQL server that will run SSIS packages.
Windows Developer Power Tools Turbocharge Windows development with more than 170 free and open source tools Power Tools
Software developers need to work harder and harder to bring value to their development process in order to build high quality applications and remain competitive. Developers can accomplish this by improving their productivity, quickly solving problems, and writing better code.
A wealth of open source and free software tools are available for developers who want to improve the way they create, build, deploy, and use software. Tools, components, and frameworks exist to help developers at every point in the development process. Windows Developer Power Tools offers an encyclopedic guide to more than 170 of these free tools to help developers build top-notch Windows software from desktop applications to web services.
To help you choose the right tools for solving both common and uncommon problems you face each day, this book follows a unique task-oriented organization, laying out topics in the same order that you and your team are likely to encounter them as you work on a project. Each tool entry features a solid introduction — a mini user’s guide — so you can get up to speed quickly and understand how to best use the tool in your environment. Inside, you’ll find:
- A guide to more than 170 tools covering 24 unique aspects of Windows and .NET software development, with many descriptions contributed by the tools’ authors
- Descriptions of freely available ASP.NET and Windows Forms controls, object relational mapping systems, testing frameworks, and build and continuous integration tools
- Articles on tools to help developers troubleshoot misbehaving applications
- Guides for utilities to boost productivity in the development environment as well as speeding up tasks in Windows itself
- “Quick pick” lists at the start of each chapter to help you find and choose the right tool for your task
- “At a Glance” and “In a Nutshell” summaries to help readers more quickly narrow their options
- References to an online book site to keep you up-to-date with new releases and features
- Forewords by Mike Gunderloy (Larkware) and Scott Hanselman (http://www.hanselman.com/tools), operators of the two most popular tools sites for Microsoft developers.
Also, plenty of links in each article point you to additional detail online if you wish to delve more deeply into features and functionality. This one-stop resource covers a wide range of open source and freeware tools to help you answer questions around planning, developing, testing, and rolling out great software. Best of all, they’re free.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Worth Every Penny!!
‘Windows Developer Power Tools: Turbocharge Windows development with more than 170 free and open source tools’ is one of the most cost-efficient books I have ever read in my life. As the title says, this book is jam-packed with some of the most helpful and needy tools that you can ever find for Windows all put into one huge TOME of a book (1250+ pages).
Spread over 23 chapters, content is broken up into topics like Windows Form, creating documentation, testing, bug tracking, XML, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. There is so much here is would take quite a while to read but that’s not a bad thing in this case. If you are an administrator, developer, or just anyone that wants to learn to use Windows more efficiently, you NEED to pick this book up today.
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***** HIGHEST POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATION
5 Stars Excellent Productivity Booster
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Until reading this book, I did not realize how much productivity I stood to gain.
When I first agreed to review this book I didn’t know what I was really getting into. I expected a brief catalog of fairly standard, well-known tools which would only come as a surprise to fresh graduate. I expected I getting a small pocket-sized book which I could devour in one train ride. I could not have been more wrong.
The book covers over 170 Open Source tools across a wide variety of development domains from Windows Forms and Web Development, to working with Databases and XML data. Each tool will in some way enhance your productivity in some way, allowing you to do the things your really enjoy about writing software on the Microsoft Windows platform. The productivity gains vary from being able to generate the tedious 80% of your project to those 5 second boosts which all add up and prevent RSI.
Each of the 23 chapters is targeted at a particular issue or development task and opens with one or two pages describing this task. These are so well written that I think the opening of Chapter 9 [Analyzing Your Code], which gives a quick explanation of code metrics, is my favorite section of the whole book. This means that the book is not just an encyclopedic reference of tools, but also of modern development techniques.
After the introduction a very brief description of each tool follows. These are great memory refreshers once you have read the book and are repeated on the companion web-site. Each tool is then given its own section and the chapter closes with a bibliography for people interested in finding out more.
This structure of “Introduction, Overview data, Full text, Where to get more information” is repeated for each tool. The overview data includes such information as:
The version covered
The home page
The license type
Which versions of the .NET Framework are supported
A collection of related tools for cross-referencing purposes
The full text of each tool explains where to get the tool, how to install it and how to get started using it allowing you to jump straight in and leverage the tool. This section is often littered with useful screenshots which give you a glimpse at the experience you will find when using the tool. The text for each tool closes with instructions for getting support on the tool and often a brief passage from the tools creator explaining the thinking behind creating the tool.
If that weren’t enough, the book also has a companion website at www.windevpowertools.com where all of the tools are listed and tagged, each with a download link enabling you to download one straight from the site. You can even create your own “toolbox” and add tools from the site to it, allowing you to quickly and easily provision new machines from the web site itself.
All in all I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. I would have liked to have seen more information about the selection process for the tools and readers would do well to remember that a tools inclusion (or lack of inclusion) in the text is not necessarily an indicator of its maturity or usefulness. Be sure that you have a lot of time if you buy this book as you are likely to download, install, and play with many of the tools. If you do then using a virtual machine is highly recommended. None of the tools did anything harmful to my computer, but having 170 tools running at once just isn’t advised!
5 Stars Bookshelf essentials - Windows Developer Power Tools
Windows Developer Power Tools: Turbocharge Windows development with more than 140 free and open source tools (Power Tools)
Overview
Open-source and free developer/performance tools can be found in abundance on the internet today but one of the few issues that generally comes up after you’ve gotten hold of one is “how does this work?”.
On occasion you’ll start to use a tool or add-in only to find out later on that there’s a much better way to utilise the power you suddenly have at your hands - but by then, you’ve spent hours already “mis-using” the tool.
This book arms you with information, tips and tricks, how-tos and descriptions on a host of known, and possibly unknown, tools that will seriously help you speed up your development - so why not be the hero of the office and start developing smartly!
Over the last couple of years i’ve been in and out of windows and web development and felt that i was comfortable in both arenas. But after reading this book I knew that I could have been a much more efficient developer if only I’d known about the tools it explores.
The book is divided into suitable chapters, making it very easy to use the book for fast reference if you suddenly remember that you once read (somewhere?) about a tool doing exactly what you’re trying to achieve in the old fashioned way - doing it yourself from scratch.
Each chapter (or tool/tip/add-in) is presented in an easily to understand english, with a logical order that makes reading this book a pleasure. Some books comes across with technical jargon without explanations for the varied levels of developers out there, but this book can easily be enjoyed by both the experienced developer and the starting rising star.
Some of my most favorite tools are included in this book, such as Anthem.Net, which encapsulates web forms and extends AJAX capability without having to write a single line of JavaScript.
Other tools which was new to me, included CopySourceAsHTML, and the experience with which i’ve had with posting code over the years, or including snippets in documentation, has just been greatly improved.
Conclusion
What i found most pleasing about this book, is the consistency in which it presents each topic for you. The authors has gone to great length to make it a flawless experience in reading this book and even though many has contributed to the content, the layout is flawlessly simple.
A very easy read and a bookshelf essential! Five stars…
4 Stars Great for anybody who wants to be more productive
I’m big into using the right tools for the right jobs. One can find a gazillion of tools out there on the internet, so it’s hard to decide which ones are actually worth checking out. This book remedies that by giving you a consolidated list of tools that everybody developer should at least have a look at.
I also blogged about this book at:
http://claudiolassala.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E2A4B22308B39CD2!356.entry
4 Stars Excellent Reference Guide to Developer’s Tools
This book is an excellent source of useful tools and mini-howto guides. I especially like the layout where each tool is described along with links to the code, a summary of its abilities and a mini-howto on how to get started with the tool. The book gives a nice cross section of tools for all occasions, broken up by category. If you are new to development or are needing a tool to help you develop code then this book will probably point you in the right direction.
The reason for 4 stars rather than 5 is more because of the topic rather than the book itself or the authors. By its very definition some of the tools were outdated by the time of the book’s release. It is a limitation of the publishing process. The authors simply have no way of knowing what tools will be available at the time of the books release. Therefore readers should not assume that each tool is the best in its category. Nor should readers assume that the howto guides are completely accurate for the current version. This book could have really used a CD containing each of the tools at the time of the writing so readers could get a feel for the tool without: a) having to download the tool separately, and b) try to match the current version of the tool to the version discussed in the book. Even better would have been a VPC image that users could run without having to install all the tools on their own system.
I’m hoping the authors put out a new edition later and, perhaps, include a CD of the tools. Until then this is one of the best books available for getting information on some really useful developer tools.
Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Visual Basic NET 2003 in 21 Days 2nd Edition Sams Teach Yourself
Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Visual Basic NET 2003 in 21 Days 2nd Edition Sams Teach Yourself
Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003 in 21 Days provides the grand tour of the software, making Visual Basic accessible and easy-to-use. Steve Holzner, the author, helps you master the topic by seeing Visual Basic in action from the basics to deploying finished Window and Web applications with a working example for every topic in the book. From cover to cover, this book is pure Visual Basic .NET
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High quality and Value for the 70-306 Exam.Killtest Practice Exams for Developing and Implementing Windows-based Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 70-306 are written to the highest standards of technical accuracy, using only certified subject matter experts and published authors for development.