This article is devoted to my SPBU.NET educational project supported by Microsoft Research in 2004 and accomplished in 2004-2005. The goal of the project was to develop a complex of educational materials on Microsoft.NET, compilers, software engineering, and operating systems, based on...

The term 'lifelong learner' has never been more applicable to any one particular group of people than it is to software developers today. The technologies and tools that developers rely on evolve more in one year than most fields do in a decade. Minimizing the time spent keeping up wit...

To obtain your MCSD .NET certification, you must pass four core exams and one elective exam. You will be happy to know that several topics are repeated in three of the core exams (70-305/315, 70-306/316, and 70-310/320). This is good news for you because once you get a handle on these ...

In earlier editions of this column, I've covered three new .NET exams; the Windows applications exam, the Web applications exam, and the XML Web services exam. Now, I'll complete the set by discussing the 'Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft .NET Solution Architectures' exam,...

In this article, I'll go over the 70-310 exam, XML Web services and Server Components Development with VB.NET, although most of what I have to say applies equally to the 70-320 exam (C#).

In one of those odd moments of synchronicity that I have learned to appreciate, I bumped into the editor-in-chief of .NET Developer's Journal during an e-mail exchange. Derek and I worked together several years back on a reasonably successful (but exhausting) book on Microsoft's 70-100...

This article is the first of a series covering the core MCAD exams. In this article, we'll spend some time going over the 70-305 exam, 'Developing and Implementing Web Applications with VB.NET,' although most of what I have to say applies equally to the 70-316 exam (C# version).