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Poor How on earth are you supposed to prepare for an exam using a book full of glaring inacurracies and errors? This is made worst by the fact that the reader will typically be covering the topics for the first time, and hence be unaware of the many errors contained within. Left me with the impression that nobody had bothered to proof read the book. Another issue I came across is that many pages are wasted simply reiterating the same information rather than simply referring back. Eg. having listed the main... more info
Riddled with errors and inconsistent I've been developing .Net applications since version 1.0 and wanted to use this book to polish what I know and 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... more info
Most errors I've seen in a technical book 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 - and I still found more mistakes that weren't in the errata - and 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 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 and makes some areas unnecessarily complicated. I would suggest buying a different book and 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... more info
