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Q&A with William Penberthy, author of "Exam Ref 70-486: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications"
Q. Why is “Exam Ref 70-486: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications” an important book for people to read right now?
A. We are hitting a cycle where more and more applications, both web-based and traditional client-based, are being replaced as they hit the end of their lifespan. There is also an industry trend toward trying to provide users with a single, web-based application that supports many different viewing platforms; including desktop, tablet, and mobile. ASP.NET MVC 4 provides support for all of these different clients out of the box with a powerful, yet extremely easy-to-use, platform that allows for rapid development and easy testing. ASP.NET MVC 4 also supports client side-technologies such as jQuery and Knockout.js that help developers build rich and interactive user interfaces. This book is timely because it takes a higher-level look at implementing the technology in the context of common business problems. It is not a coding book, but more of a design and approach book that helps experienced developers predict and manage potential problems.
Q. What will readers walk away with after reading “Exam Ref 70-486: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications?”
A. The 70-486 is not a traditional Microsoft test, so this book is not a traditional exam prep guide. First and foremost, this book is designed to help experienced developers be successful when taking the test. After that, the most important information in the book revolves around the “when” and “how” various aspects of ASP.NET MVC 4 can be implemented. The book may not tell you how to do everything in ASP.NET MVC 4, it instead acts as a guide to what can be done and when a particular approach makes sense when looking at the bigger picture. ASP.NET is almost frighteningly flexible and customizable, if you can think of something that may need to be done; there is more than likely a way to do it.
About the Author
William Penberthy is currently an application development consultant with RBA, a Microsoft 2012 Partner of the Year and has been working in software development for 25 years. He has participated in the development of more than 115 different software products and has taught multiple college and university programming and software development classes. He has specialized in the Microsoft stack for almost eight years, concentrating on ASP.NET, ASP.NET, MVC, Silverlight, and WPF. William lives in Denver, Colorado.
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- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Microsoft Press; Pap/Psc edition (September 30, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0735677220
- ISBN-13: 978-0735677227
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Free Exam Ref 70-486: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications
This book covers the objectives for the Microsoft 70-486: Development ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications certification. Books like this can be difficult to review, particularly if you don't plan to take the exam so you have nothing against which to measure the criteria. However, as the author points out "...this book takes a high-level approach, building on your knowledge of lower-level web application development and extending it into application design."
Like most Microsoft Exam Ref books, this one broke core objectives directly from the exam into chapters. The first chapter focused on the objectives 1.1 to 1.7, which is centered on the design of MVC 4 applications. Much of this text surrounded the theoretical and practical design of an application, and didn't go into any details on using MVC 4.
Chapter 2 covers objectives 2.1 to 2.5, focusing on designing the user experience. This included coverage of CSS, HTML, JavaScript in DOM manipulation, AJAX, layout and cross-browser compatibility techniques. I found parts of this chapter very helpful in practical, every day web development and some of the standards and techniques applied are applicable to all facets of web development, not just necessarily within MVC 4.
Mr. Penberthy then tackles the objectives 3.1 to 3.6, which cover topics in developing the user experience. The information within this chapter I found to be much more pragmatic than the previous chapter covering design. Topics included SEO optimization, semantic markup, globalization, and using models, views and controllers together to control application binding and behaviors. The last objective covers bundling, minification and data compression.
Next came objectives 4.1 to 4.4 on testing, debugging and deployment scenarios.