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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)
17
Mock Test 1
18
Mock Test 2
19
Mock Test 3

Regular expressions

When talking about validating input data, it is important to have an understanding of regular expressions, which is a powerful way to process text. It employs a pattern-matching technique to identify a pattern of text in input texts and validates it to the required format. For example, if our application wants to validate an email, regular expressions can be used to identify whether the email address provided is in a valid format. it checks for .com, @, and other patterns and returns if it matches a required pattern.

System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex acts as a regular expression engine in .NET Framework. To use this engine, we need to pass two parameters, the first a pattern to match and the second text where this pattern matching happens.

The regex class comes up with four different methods – IsMatch, Match, Matches, and Replace. The IsMatch method...