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Summary: A good resource for 70-176 and 70-175
Review: Everyone who plans to take exam 70-175 (VB6 Distributed) or 70-176 (VB6 Desktop) can benefit from reading this book. In fact, the material in the first four chapters maps more closely to the Desktop exam than the Distributed exam. However, this should not be your only study source. It is definitely light on ActiveX Documents and Package and Deployment Wizard. Study these thoroughly before taking either exam.
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Summary: Good for concept. Inadequate for exam
Review: I am a VB programmer for 2 years. I write most application on local machine. I have very little idea on how DCOM and MTS works.The book is only good for basics. It gave me a good conceptual insight of how distribuetd COM stuff works. But the exam is more difficult and the scope is wider than the book covers. You need to use other supplement to pass teh exam. I recommend Transcender and MSDN.
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Summary: Good information, not quite enough as an only resource
Review: I can't say this is a bad book, but after passing my exam I must say that if I would have use this as my only resource I wouldn't have acomplished that goal. This book could be enough only for VERY experienced developers using Visual Basic, and especially in distributed environments, who are already comfortable using MTS and working with SQL Server. But other people who know Visual Basic, feel they could get certified, BUT haven't got loads of experience, like myself, should get other books, I used MCSD in a Nutshell and believe me that book is awsome. In a few words, if you've got money to spare, get this book is not so bad, but if you really need efficient study material, or good reference items, there are better sources around here.
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Summary: Good for a Visual C++ programmer
Review: I have all the books in this series and give all the books 4 stars. Apart from the odd typo here and there, the books are well presented. Exams 70-176 and 70-175 are relatively simple if you are a Visual C++ programmer who has only used Visual Basic as a test harness. The content of the Training Kits covers 80% of any exam (VC++ exams too) and was enough for me (just) pass them. If you also read the 'orange' books, you will get 100% for the VB exams. 'Desktop Applications for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 MCSD Training Kit' 'Distributed Applications for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 MCSD Training Kit' 'Programming Components With Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0' 'Programming Distributed Applications With COM and Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0' books.
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Summary: Good for a Visual C++ programmer
Review: I have all the books in this series and give all the books 4 stars. Apart from the odd typo here and there, the books are well presented. Exams 70-176 and 70-175 are relatively simple if you are a Visual C++ programmer who has only used Visual Basic as a test harness. The content of the Training Kits covers 80% of any exam (VC++ exams too) and was enough for me (just) pass them. If you also read the 'orange' books, you will get 100% for the VB exams. 'Desktop Applications for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 MCSD Training Kit' 'Distributed Applications for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 MCSD Training Kit' 'Programming Components With Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0' 'Programming Distributed Applications With COM and Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0' books.
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Summary: COM / MTS Rules!
Review: I thought I knew all about COM programming in VB, but this book really cleared the air for me. The MTS chapter is awesome. All of the SQL Server labs are great. Much, much better than that Desktop training kit. Very well done.
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Summary: Good, but not good enough
Review: I totally agree with the other review. This is NOT THE BOOK for the exam
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Summary: It does the job
Review: I used this book to pass the exam. I scored 957. I did get a few questions in the exam that were either not covered adequately or not at all in this book. But, I do feel that the book did provide a solid resource for the key parts of the exam, i.e. ADO, MTS, COM and n-tier technology. I would only recommend this book to people that have a fairly solid background in VB and want to pass the exam.
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Summary: A good preparation tool, but not covering everything
Review: Just succesfully passed the 70-175 exam, so my impression is fresh. The book is a good preparion tool, but remember - it doesn't cover everything (I estimate it to 85%). Be prepared for following questions not covered here: 1. RDO - there is no one word in the book covering this topic, so refresh your knowledge about RDO. 2. Packaging and Deploying - expect several non-trivial questions not covered at all 3. Conceptual, logical and physical design - several non-trivial practice questions - I recommend reading the 70-100 Trainig Kit 4. Internet applications - several advanced questions, poorly covered in the book My preparation tools were: 1. The book 2. MSDN Articles 3. 7 years experience in VB 4.
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Summary: Good enough to pass but...
Review: The practice exam on the cd was terrible and some sections are a bit patchy. If you buy the equivalent book for 70-175 you'll find that about 60% of this book is duplicated in that book. However, this book was my only resource and I passed the exam with just over 780. I think I could have done much better had I bought transcender.
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