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Programming in C#: Exam 70-483 (MCSD) Guide

By : Simaranjit Singh Bhalla, SrinivasMadhav Gorthi
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Programming in C#: Exam 70-483 (MCSD) Guide

By: Simaranjit Singh Bhalla, SrinivasMadhav Gorthi

Overview of this book

Programming in C# is a certification from Microsoft that measures the ability of developers to use the power of C# in decision making and creating business logic. This book is a certification guide that equips you with the skills that you need to crack this exam and promote your problem-solving acumen with C#. The book has been designed as preparation material for the Microsoft specialization exam in C#. It contains examples spanning the main focus areas of the certification exam, such as debugging and securing applications, and managing an application's code base, among others. This book will be full of scenarios that demand decision-making skills and require a thorough knowledge of C# concepts. You will learn how to develop business logic for your application types in C#. This book is exam-oriented, considering all the patterns for Microsoft certifications and practical solutions to challenges from Microsoft-certified authors. By the time you've finished this book, you will have had sufficient practice solving real-world application development problems with C# and will be able to carry your newly-learned skills to crack the Microsoft certification exam to level up your career.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Mock Test 1
18
Mock Test 2
19
Mock Test 3

JSON and XML

With the extensive use of internet and cloud applications, JSON and XML are becoming more important in terms of data transfer between applications. Using JSON and XML also increases the number of data-related issues, unless the data is validated.

Schema validation can be used to validate an XML file, which will help us to identify whether XML is inline with data types defined. However, to validate the actual data, you may still be using the methods we discussed in this chapter. Visual Studio helps you to create a schema file. The Xsd.exe <XML file> command will create a schema file. Here is an example XML file.

This XML file has a Students root element, in which information is held in relation to multiple students. Each student element has child elements that hold values including FirstName, LastName, School, and DOB:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding...