This is a comprehensive study tool containing hundreds of practice questions, ExamWatch warnings and 2-Minute Drills for quick review. The companion CD-ROM content includes excerpts from LearnKey's interactive XML for Developers Using MS Tools Study Guide, and the LearnKey self-assessment engine, as well as cert cams to provide demonstrations of key concepts.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0
This book will not help you:
This was the second book I bought to study for the 70-310 exam. The test covered completely different material from this book. It did not help prepare me whatsoever for the exam, I am currently seeking a refund from the publisher.
Good content, bad code exercises:
I think the book is good overall but I know I wasted a lot of time correcting the code exercises. If anyone has figured out how to get exercise 4.03 of the Remoting chapter working then please post the fix in your review because I wasted a good 3 hours on it before giving up. The problem is, is that there is no good documentation on the MSDN for using Activator.GetObject. In the web.config file, I'm still unsure if it should be ObjectUrl (in the book) or ObjectUri (every other article I've read).
Bonjour la compréhension !:
Un livre de la sorte ne devrait pas exister. Juste à lire la couverture et l'endos du livre, nous sommes embalés par toute la capacité du livre, mais aussitôt qu'on se met à lire les chapitre on se demande: Où sont donc les éléments mentionnés sur la couverture. "Xml web services", hahaha, ... , 1 chapitre sur le sujet. Par chance que je ne m'hasardais pas sur le sujet. Un livre de 520 pages ? Ne vous fait pas avoir par l'arnaque; le livre... more info
Many examples in CD are not working:
I have tried to unzip the examples come with the CD but many of that not functioning especially for chapter 4, .Net Remoting and chapter 5 XML Web Services. I have sent the error to the author but without any reply for months.