Book List

�Below is a listing of certification books available for MCPD and MCITP exams. Some books aren’t available yet but usually become available before their listed availability date. Please note, these are all Microsoft Press Self-Paced Training Kit books. Besides the great testing software, these books also include a 15% voucher toward the exam.

I also have a listed of additional books by category. Each book has at least a 4/5 review rating on Amazon.com.

• SQL Server 2005 (general)
• .NET 2.0 Framework (general)

.NET Framework 2.0 Exams

MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-536): Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Application Development Foundation (Hardcover)

MCTS:

MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-528): Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Web-Based Client Development (Pro Certification) (Paperback)

MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-526): Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Windows-Based Client Development (Hardcover)

MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-529): Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Distributed Application Development (Pro Certification) (Paperback)

MCPD:

MCPD Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-548): Designing and Developing Windows -Based Applications Using the Microsoft .NET Framework (Certification Series) (Paperback)
(Available February 28, 2007)

MCPD Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-547): Designing and Developing Web-Based Applications Using the Microsoft .NET Framework (Paperback)
(Available February 28, 2007)

MCPD Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-549): Designing and Developing Enterprise Applications Using the Microsoft .NET Framework (Certification Series) (Paperback)
(Available February 28, 2007)

For those upgrading, unfortunately, none of the following books have a release date:

Exam 70-551: UPGRADE: MCAD skills to MCPD: Web Developer by Using the Microsoft .NET Framework
(The recommendation is to use the 70-528 and 70-547 books)

Exam 70-552: UPGRADE: MCAD Skills to MCPD: Windows Developer by Using the Microsoft .NET Framework
(The recommendation is to use the 70-528 and 70-548 books)

Exam 70-553: UPGRADE: MCSD Microsoft .NET Skills to MCPD: Enterprise Application Developer by Using the Microsoft .NET Framework: Part 1
(The recommendation is to use the 70-528 and 70-526 books)

SQL Server 2005 Exams

MCTS:

MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-431): Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2005 Implementation and Maintenance (Pro-Certification (Hardcover))

MCITP:

MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-443): Designing a Database Server Infrastructure Using Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2005 (Pro Certification) (Paperback)
(Available December 31, 2006)

MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-444): Optimizing and Maintaining a Database Administration Solution Using Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2005 (Pro-Certification (Hardcover))

Exam 70-441: PRO: Designing Database Solutions by Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Open License 6.0
(no book release date)

Exam 70-442: PRO: Designing and Optimizing Data Access by Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005
(May 30, 2007)

Exam 70-445: TS: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence - Implementation and Maintenance (available early 2007)
(no book release date)

Exam 70-446: PRO: Designing a Business Intelligence Solution by Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (available early 2007)
(no book release date)

For those upgrading, unfortunately, none of the following books have a release date:

Exam 70-447: UPGRADE: MCDBA Skills to MCITP Database Administrator by Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005
(The recommendation is to use the 70-443 and 70-444 books)

– Additional books — All books have at least a 4/5 rating on Amazon.

.NET 2.0 Framework (general)

Visual C# 2005 Programming Black Book (Black Book (Paraglyph Press)) (Paperback)
By Matthew Telles
Publisher: Paraglyph Press; Bk&CD-Rom edition (February 1, 2007)
ISBN: 1933097167

Essential C# 2.0 (Microsoft .NET Development Series) (Paperback)
By Mark Michaelis
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (July 13, 2006)
ISBN: 0321150775

Windows Forms 2.0 Programming (2nd Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series) (Paperback)
By Chris Sells, Michael Weinhardt
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 2 edition (May 16, 2006)
ISBN: 0321267966

Programming Microsoft Visual C# 2005: The Base Class Library (Pro-Developer) (Paperback)
By Francesco Balena
Publisher: Microsoft Press; 2005 Ed edition (May 10, 2006)
ISBN: 0735623082

Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Unleashed (Paperback)
By Kevin Hoffman
Publisher: Sams (May 9, 2006)
ISBN: 0672327767

Professional .NET Framework 2.0 (Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)
By Joe Duffy
Publisher: Wrox (April 10, 2006)
ISBN: 0764571354

CLR via C#, Second Edition (Paperback)
By Jeffrey Richter
Publisher: Microsoft Press; 2nd edition (February 22, 2006)
ISBN: 0735621632

Programming Microsoft Visual C# 2005: The Language (Paperback)
By Donis Marshall
Publisher: Microsoft Press; 2005 Ed edition (January 25, 2006)
ISBN: 0735621810

Programming C# [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)
By Jesse Liberty
Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 4 edition (February 22, 2005)
ISBN: 0596006993
SQL Server 2005 (general)

Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (Paperback)
By Andrew J. Brust, Stephen Forte
Publisher: Microsoft Press (July 19, 2006)
ISBN: 0735619239

Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Programming (Pro-Developer) (Paperback)
By Itzik Ben-gan, Dejan Sarka, Roger Wolter
Publisher: Microsoft Press (June 14, 2006)
ISBN: 0735621977

Administrator’s Guide to SQL Server 2005 (Microsoft Windows Server System Series) (Paperback)
By Buck Woody
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (June 8, 2006)
ISBN: 0321397975

A Developer’s Guide to SQL Server 2005 (Microsoft .NET Development Series) (Paperback)
By Bob Beauchemin, Dan Sullivan
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (April 28, 2006)
ISBN: 0321382188

Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Querying (Solid Quality Learning) (Paperback)
By Itzik Ben-Gan, Lubor Kollar, Dejan Sarka
Publisher: Microsoft Press (April 26, 2006)
ISBN: 0735623139

Programming SQL Server 2005 [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)
By Bill Hamilton
Publisher: O’Reilly Media (March 1, 2006)
ISBN: 0596004796

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Stored Procedure Programming in T-SQL & .NET (Paperback)
By Dejan Sunderic
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 3 edition (May 18, 2006)
ISBN: 0072262281

Beginning SQL Server 2005 Programming (Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)
By Robert Vieira
Publisher: Wrox (February 27, 2006)
ISBN: 0764584332

SQL Server 2005 T-SQL Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Paperback)
By Joseph Sack
Publisher: Apress (December 6, 2005)
ISBN: 159059570X
Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2005 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant (Pro-Administrator’s Pocket Consultant) (Paperback)
By William R. Stanek
Publisher: Microsoft Press; Pocket edition (November 2, 2005)
ISBN: 0735621071

Pro SQL Server 2005 (Paperback)
By Thomas Rizzo, Adam Machanic, Robin Dewson, Rob Walters, Joseph Sack, Julian Skinner, Louis Davidson
Publisher: Apress (October 24, 2005)
ISBN: 1590594770

Updated: 12/11/2006

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