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Your 2-in-1 Self-Paced Training Kit. Fully updated and revised Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-536--and on the job. With this official Microsoft study guide, you'll work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then reinforce and apply what you've learned through real-world case scenarios and practice exercises.
Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to: Develop applications that use system types and collections Validate input, reformat text, and extract data with regular expressions Create services and multi-threaded applications Implement code-access security and role-based security Implement serialization to read and write complex objects Leverage legacy code using interoperability Monitor and troubleshoot applications Create applications for a global audience
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The print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via OReilly Medias Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit OReillys web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to [email protected].
Synopsis
Your 2-in-1 Self-Paced Training Kit. Fully updated and revised! Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-536—and on the job. With this official Microsoft study guide, you’ll work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then reinforce and apply what you’ve learned through real-world case scenarios and practice exercises.
Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to:
- Develop applications that use system types and collections
- Validate input, reformat text, and extract data with regular expressions
- Create services and multi-threaded applications
- Implement code-access security and role-based security
- Implement serialization to read and write complex objects
- Leverage legacy code using interoperability
- Monitor and troubleshoot applications
- Create applications for a global audience
PRACTICE TESTS Assess your skills with practice tests on CD. You can work through hundreds of questions using multiple testing modes to meet your specific learning needs. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers?including a customized learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies.
Your kit includes:
- Official self-paced study guide.
- Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results.
- 300+ practice and review questions.
- Code samples in Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C# on CD.
- Case scenarios, exercises, and best practices.
- 90-day evaluation of Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2008.
- Fully searchable eBook of this guide.
For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.
About the Author
Tony Northrup, a Boston-area network security consultant and technology author, developed his interest in home automation after renting an apartment where every light was controlled by pulling a string. Tony turned to home automation products to add light switches without needing to hire an electrician or cutting into the drywall. Tony later bought a house and now uses computers to control and monitor virtually every system in his home: electrical, home theater, security, and even plumbing. Tony's wife, Erica, ensures his home hacking projects are user-friendly and reliable, while his cat, Sammy, mangles every project within paw's reach.
Table of Contents
Dedication; About the Author; Tony Northrup; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Hardware Requirements; Software Requirements; Using the CD and DVD; Microsoft Certified Professional Program; Technical Support; Evaluation Edition Software Support; Chapter 1: Framework Fundamentals; 1.1 Before You Begin; 1.2 Lesson 1: Using Value Types; 1.3 How to Create Enumerations; 1.4 Lesson Summary; 1.5 Lesson 2: Using Common Reference Types; 1.6 Lesson 3: Constructing Classes; 1.7 What Is Inheritance?; 1.8 Lesson 4: Converting Between Types; 1.9 Chapter Review; 1.10 Chapter Summary; 1.11 Key Terms; 1.12 Case Scenario; 1.13 Suggested Practices; 1.14 Take a Practice Test; Chapter 2: Input/Output; 2.1 Before You Begin; 2.2 Lesson 1: Working with the File System; 2.3 Lesson 2: Reading and Writing Files and Streams; 2.4 Chapter Review; 2.5 Chapter Summary; 2.6 Key Terms; 2.7 Case Scenarios; 2.8 Suggested Practices; 2.9 Take a Practice Test; Chapter 3: Searching, Modifying, and Encoding Text; 3.1 Before You Begin; 3.2 Lesson 1: Forming Regular Expressions; 3.3 Lesson Summary; 3.4 Lesson Review; 3.5 Lesson 2: Encoding and Decoding; 3.6 Chapter Review; 3.7 Chapter Summary; 3.8 Key Terms; 3.9 Case Scenarios; 3.10 Suggested Practices; 3.11 Take a Practice Test; Chapter 4: Collections and Generics; 4.1 Before You Begin; 4.2 Lesson 1: Collections and Dictionaries; 4.3 Lesson 2: Generic Collections; 4.4 Chapter Review; 4.5 Chapter Summary; 4.6 Key Terms; 4.7 Case Scenarios; 4.8 Suggested Practices; 4.9 Take a Practice Test; Chapter 5: Serialization; 5.1 Before You Begin; 5.2 Lesson 1: Serializing Objects; 5.3 Lesson 2: XML Serialization; 5.4 Lesson 3: Custom Serialization; 5.5 Chapter Review; 5.6 Chapter Summary; 5.7 Key Terms; 5.8 Case Scenarios; 5.9 Suggested Practices; 5.10 Take a Practice Test; Chapter 6: Graphics; 6.1 Before You Begin; 6.2 Lesson 1: Drawing Graphics; 6.3 How to Specify the Location and Size of Controls; 6.4 How to Specify the Color of Controls; 6.5 Lesson 2: Working with Images; 6.6 Lesson 3: Formatting Text; 6.7 Chapter Review; 6.8 Chapter Summary; 6.9 Key Terms; 6.10 Case Scenarios; 6.11 Suggested Practices; 6.12 Take a Practice Test; Chapter 7: Threading; 7.1 Before You Begin; 7.2 Lesson 1: Starting Multiple Threads; 7.3 Lesson 2: Managing Threads; 7.4 Chapter Review; 7.5 Chapter Summary; 7.6 Key Terms; 7.7 Case Scenarios; 7.8 Suggested Practices; 7.9 Take a Practice Test; Chapter 8: Application Domains and Services; 8.1 Before You Begin; 8.2 Lesson 1: Creating Application Domains; 8.3 Lesson 2: Configuring Application Domains; 8.4 Lesson 3: Creating Windows Services; 8.5 Chapter Review; 8.6 Chapter Summary; 8.7 Key Terms; 8.8 Case Scenarios; 8.9 Suggested Practices; 8.10 Take a Practice Test; Chapter 9: Installing and Configuring Applications; 9.1 Before You Begin; 9.2 Lesson 1: Configuring Applications; 9.3 Lesson 2: Configuring the .NET Framework; 9.4 Lesson 3: Installing Applications; 9.5 Chapter Review; 9.6 Chapter Summary; 9.7 Key Terms; 9.8 Case Scenarios; 9.9 Suggested Practices; 9.10 Take a Practice Test; Chapter 10: Logging and Systems Management; 10.1 Before You Begin; 10.2 Lesson 1: Logging Application State; 10.3 Lesson 2: Working with Performance Counters; 10.4 Lesson 3: Managing Computers; 10.5 Chapter Review; 10.6 Chapter Summary; 10.7 Key Terms; 10.8 Case Scenarios; 10.9 Suggested Practices; 10.10 Take a Practice Test; Chapter 11: Application Security; 11.1 Before You Begin; 11.2 Lesson 1: Understanding CAS; 11.3 Lesson 2: Using Declarative Security to Protect Assemblies; 11.4 Lesson 3: Using Declarative and Imperative Security to Protect Methods; 11.5 Chapter Review; 11.6 Chapter Summary; 11.7 Key Terms; 11.8 Case Scenarios; 11.9 Suggested Practices; 11.10 Take a Practice Test; Chapter 12: User and Data Security; 12.1 Before You Begin; 12.2 Lesson 1: Authenticating and Authorizing Users; 12.3 Lesson 2: Using Access Control Lists; 12.4 Lesson 3: Encrypting and Decrypting Data; 12.5 Chapter Review; 12.6 Chapter Summary; 12.7 Key Terms; 12.8 Case Scenarios; 12.9 Suggested Practices; 12.10 Take a Practice Test; Chapter 13: Interoperating with COM; 13.1 Before You Begin; 13.2 Lesson 1: Using COM Components from the .NET Framework; 13.3 Lesson 2: Using .NET Types from COM Applications; 13.4 Chapter Review; 13.5 Chapter Summary; 13.6 Key Terms; 13.7 Case Scenarios; 13.8 Suggested Practices; 13.9 Take a Practice Test; Chapter 14: Reflection; 14.1 Before You Begin; 14.2 Lesson 1: Using Reflection; 14.3 Chapter Review; 14.4 Chapter Summary; 14.5 Key Terms; 14.6 Case Scenarios; 14.7 Suggested Practices; 14.8 Take a Practice Test; Chapter 15: Mail; 15.1 Before You Begin; 15.2 Lesson 1: Creating an E-mail Message;;;;;; 15.3 Lesson 2: Sending E-mail; 15.4 Chapter Review; 15.5 Chapter Summary; 15.6 Key Terms; 15.7 Case Scenario; 15.8 Suggested Practices; 15.9 Take a Practice Test; Chapter 16: Globalization; 16.1 Before You Begin; 16.2 Lesson 1: Formatting Data for Globalization; 16.3 Chapter Review; 16.4 Chapter Summary; 16.5 Key Terms; 16.6 Case Scenario; 16.7 Suggested Practices; 16.8 Take a Practice Test; Answers; Chapter 1: Lesson Review Answers; Chapter 1: Case Scenario Answers; Chapter 2: Lesson Review Answers; Chapter 2: Case Scenario Answers; Chapter 3: Lesson Review Answers; Chapter 3: Case Scenario Answers; Chapter 4: Lesson Review Answers; Chapter 4: Case Scenario Answers; Chapter 5: Lesson Review Answers; Chapter 5: Case Scenario Answers; Chapter 6: Lesson Review Answers; Chapter 6: Case Scenario Answers; Chapter 7: Lesson Review Answers; Chapter 7: Case Scenario Answers; Chapter 8: Lesson Review Answers; Chapter 8: Case Scenario Answers; Chapter 9: Lesson Review Answers; Chapter 9: Case Scenario Answers; Chapter 10: Lesson Review Answers; Chapter 10: Case Scenario Answers; Chapter 11: Lesson Review Answers; Chapter 11: Case Scenario Answers; Chapter 12: Lesson Review Answers; Chapter 12: Case Scenario Answers; Chapter 13: Lesson Review Answers; Chapter 13: Case Scenario Answers; Chapter 14: Lesson Review Answers; Chapter 14: Case Scenario Answers; Chapter 15: Lesson Review Answers; Chapter 15: Case Scenario Answers; Chapter 16: Lesson Review Answers; Chapter 16: Case Scenario Answers; Glossary; System Requirements; Hardware Requirements; Software Requirements; Additional Resources for Developers from Microsoft Press; Visual Basic; Visual C#; Web Development; Data Access; .NET Framework; Other Developer Topics; Get CertifiedVisual Studio 2008;