Customer Reviews
Riddled with errors and inconsistent - By: RDP, 28 Mar 2008 
I've been developing .Net applications since version 1.0 & wanted to use this book to polish what I know & fill in any gaps. Unfortunately this book has proved to be almost of no use whatsoever.
The first hard lesson to learn is that the book MUST be read alongside the substantial list of corrections available on the Microsoft website. If you don't heed this warning you quickly form the opinion that not only has the book not been proof read by a third person but that it's not even be proof read by the authors.
The second major problem is that the combination of authors working on the book has led to an inconsistent style & tone. In one section you might be hand held through an exercise as if you don't know what the keyboard is & a mere handful of pages later you are treated as if you are a developer working on the Framework at Microsoft!
On the whole I found this book is deeply unsatisfying & as pointed out by another reviewer possibly only worth the contents page as a guide to what the exam might contain as the book itself & the questions on the CD ROM have too many errors to be used as a credible study tool.
Most errors I've seen in a technical book - By: Barry, 10 Mar 2008 This book has an unbelievable amount of errors, Microsoft's website has to give 4 separate errata web pages for the 214 errors they admit to in this book - & I still found more mistakes that weren't in the errata - & there are even mistakes in the corrections.
Avoid this book, you would be far better off using the msdn library to research the exam topics.
Good Table of Contents - By: Bosh, 18 Dec 2007 
Only useful for the table of contents as a guide of what to revise. The book will give you a decent overview, but it has quite afew mistakes & makes some areas unnecessarily complicated. I would suggest buying a different book & make sure it covers the contents of this book.
It seems to me there is a conflict of interest in this book it written buy Microsoft so its not necessarily within their interest for you to pass first time. The questions on the CD are alot different to the exam. I would suggest looking at Brain Dump, Test King, Trancenders et al, if you sole aim is to pass.
Good Source for the exam - By: A. V. Tijare, 17 Sep 2007 
This Book is good source for the exam & does its job.
I needed to supplement it with MSDN library to pass the exam.
This book is not a reference Book for professionals.
Riddled with errors - By: Carl Wright, 27 Aug 2007 This book seems to be split into good chapters, with a logical progression through to the end.
However, I don't think that I have ever experienced a technical book with so many errors. I'm not talking factual errors, I'm talking about simple copy & paste errors. If you consider that this book is a combined work of 3 people, also adding to that the technical editor - this is 4 people that should have proof read the book. Unacceptable. To start a section titled 'Creating an installler', with the text 'You can configure application domains to create....' & then continue with a 6 line paragraph that has been copied verbatim from the previous chapter is absolutely shocking, & should never have got past any form of review.
For reference, the Microsoft Knowledge Base articles for the corrections for this book are KB923018 & KB935218.
If you are looking for a book for this exam, I would suggest looking at Amit Kalani's offering - as in my previous experience, his books have been excellent quality.
