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Summary: Great Book
Review: I bought this book in order to pass the exam 70-016. First it seems to be very good, But after I did the exam I realize that the book deals only with basic. esp. the covering of the COM(there was'nt any description of the interfaces of COM). Do'nt spend money on it !
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Summary: This book is worth a look, but not as single source of info
Review: I passed my exam after buying this book and reading it cover to cover. This book did go over everything MS claimed was on the certification test, but the actual test required a much broader and deeper understanding of MFC, COM, ADO, MTS and general programming know how. I could not have passed the test with the knowledge gained from this book alone, but I did learn some interesting and useful information that I directly applied on the job. I gave this four stars, partly because 3.5 stars aren't an option and because this book did what it promised. Without directly giving out exact test questions it delivered as much as could be expected. It has a nice assessment mechanism included on the CD that you can use to grill yourself a couple of times before rendering it worthless through raising your "test IQ".The point is, while this book is very full of information, if you are not very familiar with a particular aspect of the test then take the time to learn it through actual programming. Cramming and memorizing facts will not be enough.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This book is very useful. I find it easy to read and understand. I passed the exam from reading this book.
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Summary: Decent Exam Prep.
Review: This is actually a farily good exam prep- there are a few errors, bu they seem to be identified well on the publishers website. I thought the book mapped pretty well to the actual exam. Obviously the more experience the better, but i do think this showed me a couple things I wasn't certain of.
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Summary: Helpful Book
Review: While the book does a good job of cleaning up the extraneous test details (contents of different VC++ editions, formal titles of the debugging stages) it is useless for core competenices (COM and Active X). Here are a couple of my favorites: "Source code is the programming code you write that makes your program actually do things". A review bullet ... on page 95! 35 pages about SourceSafe, MS's source code control tool. 1 paragrpaph about how to use sockets (I guess networks are just a fad). With assorted extraneous errors ('CHttpInternetConnection is the base class for internet connections') and code samples that don't work (pretty much everything from Chapter 7 "Creating a COM component") this book will certainly keep you on your feet. BOTTOM LINE - Don't depend on this book! I learned A LOT more from 'teach yourself VC++ in 21 days'. This book is nice if you have a lot of extra time to learn trivial VC++ details.
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Summary: Fun book but incomplete
Review: You won't pass the exam just by reading this book. However, it contains useful information that other books don't.There are hands-on exercises, and plenty of exam questions (20 for each chapter, and a CD with about 200 questions that comes with the book). For example, there is a chapter that shows you how to write ISAPI server extension that can dynamically change web content, that I haven't seen in other books. Overall, it is a fun book to read, and practice your skills. It follows the 70-016 objective lines, but don't expect to much depth information from it. These are the other books I used for this exam: Programming MFC (Jeff Prosise), Begginning ATL 3 by Wrox, 70-016 ExamCram
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