Some e-books and .NET 4.0 beta exams
Lately I have found some pretty interesting e-books about different technologies and one announcement about .NET Framework 4.0 beta exams. In this posting I will introduce you books I found and first beta exams.
e-Books
C# to IL
by Vijay Mukhy is good book for programmers who want to know
how C# programs are compiled to Intermediate Language (IL)
and how IL works and looks like. For me this book is like
lightweight version of
Expert .NET 2.0 IL Assembler
by Serge Lidin. But it is good book and it helped me to
write my blog postings about
object to object mapper
and
how to throw strings instead of exceptions in .NET
Framework. Do you really need this book? No, if you are
not professional! :)
Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions
by Mitch Tulloch and Microsoft Virtualization Team is second
edition of his famous virtualization e-book published last
year. New edition is updated and contains information also
about Windows Server 2008 R2. The book covers virtualization
topics from desktop to server and it is good reading if you
want to know more about virtualization technologies
available by Microsoft.
First Look: Microsoft Office 2010
is limited time offer from
Microsoft Learning. Short, about 200 pages book, is good
overview of Microsoft Office 2010 programs, new features and
enhancements. I heard from my good friend that he used this
book when creating his presentation for local Microsoft
Office 2010 day. If he found this book to be useful for such
thing as presentation then it should be good reading also
for you.
Upcoming exams
Microsoft Beta Exams team announced new .Net Framework 4.0 beta exams that will be available from 31.03 – 20.04.2010.
- 70-511 TS: Windows Applications Development with Microsoft® .NET Framework 4
- 70-513 TS: Windows Communication Foundation Development with Microsoft® .NET Framework 4
- 70-515 TS: Web Applications Development with Microsoft® .NET Framework 4
- 70-516 TS: Accessing Data with Microsoft® .NET Framework 4
- 70-519 Pro: Designing and Developing Web Applications using Microsoft® .NET Framework 4
You can read more from Beta Exams blog posting Free Certification Exams.