MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide: A compact certification guide to help you prepare for and pass the (70-506): TS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development exam with this book and ebook.

Johnny Tordgeman

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4.8 (5 Ratings)

Paperback Jun 2012 290 pages 1st Edition

Johnny Tordgeman

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4.8 (5 Ratings)

Paperback Jun 2012 290 pages 1st Edition

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This book and e-book will provide all that you need to know to pass the Microsoft Silverlight 4 development (70-506) exam.
Includes a comprehensive set of test questions and answers.
The layout and content of the book matches that of the skills measured by the exam closely, which makes it easy to focus your learning and maximize your study time where you need improvement.

Description

Microsoft Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating engaging, interactive applications for many screens across the Web, desktop, and mobile devices. Silverlight is also a great (and growing) Line-Of-Business platform and is increasingly being used to build data-driven business applications. Silverlight is based on familiar .NET languages such as C# which enables existing .NET developers to get started developing rich internet applications almost immediately. "MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide" will show you how to prepare for and pass the (70-506): TS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development exam.Packed with practical examples and Q&As, MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide starts by showing you how to lay out a user interface, enhance the user interface, implement application logic, work with data and interact with a host platform amongst others.

Who is this book for?

If you are a .NET developer who wants to create and maintain rich interactive applications (RIA) using Silverlight 4, then this book is for you. Basic experience of Silverlight development, Microsoft .NET development, and consuming data services is required.

What you will learn

Learn how to lay out a user interface in Silverlight using concepts such as panels, content controls and navigation.
Discover how to enhance your UI by manipulating visuals, creating animations and other important UI concepts.
Understand how to implement application logic and work with data to create a powerful data driven line of business applications.
Know how to structure your application and how it can interact with its host platform.
Learn how to configure, deliver and deploy your Silverlight application and how to dynamically load resources upon request.

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Eyal Jul 09, 2012

Great book for those who still wish to pass the MCTS exam for Silverlight. The book provides many tutorials for the subjects in discussion, which comes to mind when you hit a question in the exam about the exact same subject.

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Jamie Mellway Oct 29, 2012

Simply said, it covers the material on the exam. I've worked through self-paced training kit books where the exam throws me stuff I've never seen before, but this book covered the material and I passed. I hope Packt Publishing puts out more Visual Studio certification guides.

Dan Gleason Oct 01, 2012

I have read a few SL books now, with each focused on detail I needed in depth knowledge on. Silverlight with WCF, Silverlight with RIA Services, SL for SharePoint, etc. Those books were great for the in depth detail I needed, but they are not designed to help me pass the cert exam.This book has just enough detail in each area, with a call out to great sources of detail in specific areas if you require, or want the expanded knowledge. This worked extremely well for me as I have basic knowledge of SL and have produced several relatively simple apps with data grids and RIA services, but I needed to learn some of the basics if I am going to take the cert exam and so I got this book with that intent.

Niv Dolev, SharePoint Specialist Jul 02, 2012

First let me start by saying i just loved the book.As a sharepoint specialist and someone who's work is based around giving the best support to both customers and our development team i found this very interesting, detailed and helpful.The material in the book is presented in an easy to follow tutorial way.In this intuitive way johnny Torgeman explains the subject of silverlight 4 development from A to Z.i have bought the book and after this i am already waiting for johnney's next book.

Einar Ingebrigtsen Oct 26, 2012

Personally I haven't done the certification, so I won't be able to say if it is sufficient or not, but I would imagine that the certification itself has been used as a guide for what is needed.Silverlight 4 is a pretty large subject on its own, and quite ambitious to cover in just one book and at the same time provide guidance towards a certification. I feel that this book really accomplished this in a good manner, it is straight to the point but at the same time not leaving out any explanations. I even picked up some basic knowledge I was not aware of myself.Being a guidance for certification, it does just that, so its not going to go outside of that promise. Which probably makes it feel a little light-weight on real world scenarios and it stays true to the original Microsoft messaging. It mentioned MVVM to some extent, but it could probably have dove into that subject a bit more, in my opinion. But I totally understand why it is not brought up. Being very focused on code quality, testability and such I feel that it is important to get this message straight, even though it might not be 100% relevant to a certification.All in all I found the book to be as close to a page turner as these kind of books can be, I learned some basics myself and brushed up on my own knowledge of Silverlight while reading it. And I'm pretty confident it will serve as a good guide for a developer wanting to certify him/her-self as a Silverlight developer.

MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide: A compact certification guide to help you prepare for and pass the (70-506): TS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development exam with this book and ebook.

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