MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-505): Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.5—Windows® Forms Application Development comments and corrections

This article contains comments, corrections, and information about known errors relating to the Microsoft Press book MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-505): Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Windows Forms Application Development, 978-0-7356-2637-9.

The following topics are covered:

• CD-ROM: Readiness Review assessment answer incorrect
• CD-ROM: Readiness review question has two correct answers
• CD-ROM: Readiness Review assessment answer incorrect
• CD-ROM: Incorrect answer marked correct in Readiness Review
• CD-ROM: Readiness Review assessment answer incorrect
• Page 29: SizeType.Absolute should be SizeType.AutoSize
• Page 30: Incorrect column numbering information
• Page 32: "SplitContainter" should be "SplitContainer"
• Page 41: "BorderStyle" should be "FormBorderStyle"
• Page 50: property should be control
• Page 96: "0," should be "0,,"
• Page 699: "TabContainer" should be "TabControl"
• Page 733: Correct answer marked incorrect
• Page 740: Correct answers marked as Incorrect

CD-ROM: Readiness Review assessment answer incorrect

On the Readiness Review assessment, one of the questions reads:
"Which of the following values for the Zoom property will cause the document to be previewed at 250 percent of normal size?"

The correct answer should be:
2.5

CD-ROM: Readiness review question has two correct answers

On the Readiness Review assessment, one of the questions has two correct answers, but only one is marked correct.

The question begins:
"You are creating a Windows Forms application. An application form executes a long-running method named CalculateExponentialMovingAverage by creating an instance of the delegate that refers to the method implementation and calling the method's BeginInvoke method."

One of the answers is marked incorrect, but it is correct. The answer reads:
"Call the delegate's EndInvoke method."

CD-ROM: Readiness Review assessment answer incorrect

On the Readiness Review assessment, one of the questions has the correct answer marked incorrect.

The question reads:
"You are reviewing the design of a Windows Forms application that will execute from a partially trusted environment. You must identify any task that will not be allowed with the default permission set granted for an application in the Local Intranet zone.

Which task should you identify?"

The answer that should be marked correct reads:
"Call unmanaged code"

CD-ROM: Incorrect answer marked correct in Readiness Review

On the Readiness Review assessment, one of the questions has an incorrect answer marked correct.

The question reads:
"Your application includes an instance named configuration of the following class: You need to add code to your form to use databinding to show a Button control named debugButton if the ShowDebug property is true and to hide the button if it is not.

Which code segment should you use?"

This question marks two answers as correct, when there is only one correct answer. The incorrect answer that is marked correct reads:

CD-ROM: Readiness Review assessment answer incorrect

On the Readiness Review assessment, one of the questions has the correct answer marked incorrect.

The question reads:
"You need to add a button named button1 to a TableLayoutPanel named panel1 at run time. You want to add button1 to the second column of the second row.

Which code segment do you add to your form?"

The answer marked correct reads:
It should read:

Page 29: SizeType.Absolute should be SizeType.AutoSize

On page 29, the first sentence of the last paragraph refers to an incorrect SizeType.

Change:
"If you set a row or column style to a size type of anything other than SizeType.Absolute, you can also set the Width (for columns) or Height (for rows)."

To:
"If you set a row or column style to a size type of anything other than SizeType.AutoSize, you can also set the Width (for columns) or Height (for rows)."

Page 30: Incorrect column numbering information

On page 30, the first sentence after the second code sample is incorrect.

Change:
"Columns in a TableLayoutPanel are numbers starting at 1, while rows start at 0."

To:
"Columns and rows in a TableLayoutPanel are numbers starting at 0."

Page 32: "SplitContainter" should be "SplitContainer"

On page 32, the 3rd sentence in the second paragraph contains a misspelled control.

Change:
"Note that a panel is fixed by the FixedPanel property only when the SplitContainter control is resized."

To:
"Note that a panel is fixed by the FixedPanel property only when the SplitContainer control is resized."

Page 41: "BorderStyle" should be "FormBorderStyle"

On page 41, the second sentence of the first bullet point under Chapter Summary includes an incorrect property name.

Change:
"Forms provide a variety of properties that you can use to affect the appearance of the user interface, including Text, BorderStyle, Size, Opacity, and the behavior of the UI, such as Windowstate and TopMost."

To:
"Forms provide a variety of properties that you can use to affect the appearance of the user interface, including Text, FormBorderStyle, Size, Opacity, and the behavior of the UI, such as Windowstate and TopMost."

Page 50: property should be control

On page 50, the last sentence of the second paragraph is incorrect.

Change:
"The property will relocate to the new location."

To:
"The control will relocate to the new location."

Page 96: "0," should be "0,,"

On page 96, in Table 3-4, the last sentence of the "," section is missing a comma.

Change:
"For example, the format string “0,” will represent 100 million as simply 100."

To:
"For example, the format string “0,,” will represent 100 million as simply 100."

Page 699: "TabContainer" should be "TabControl"

On page 699, the first sentence of Case Scenario 2 contains an incorrect control.

Change:
"You can use the TabContainer control to display multiple pages of information and allow the user to switch between pages while keeping the information static."

To:
"You can use the TabControl control to display multiple pages of information and allow the user to switch between pages while keeping the information static."

Page 733: Correct answer marked incorrect

On page 733, question 1 of Lesson 3 incorrectly states that answer C is incorrect and answer B is correct.

Change:
"B. Correct: In the Zoom property, a value of 1 represents 100 percent normal size. Thus, 25 would correspond to a Zoom of 2500 percent.
C. Incorrect: In the Zoom property, a value of 1 represents 100 percent normal size. Thus, 2.5 would correspond to a Zoom of 250 percent."

To:
"B. Inorrect: In the Zoom property, a value of 1 represents 100 percent normal size. Thus, 25 would correspond to a Zoom of 2500 percent.
C. Correct: In the Zoom property, a value of 1 represents 100 percent normal size. Thus, 2.5 would correspond to a Zoom of 250 percent."

Page 740: Correct answers marked as Incorrect

On page 740, the answers for Lesson 1 question 3 are partially incorrect and should include two other correct answers.

Change:
"3. Correct Answer: A
A. Correct: The ReportProgress method raises the ProgressChanged event and allows you to specify a percentage of progress.
B. Incorrect: You must handle the ProgressChanged event to implement coed that is executed when progress is reported.
C. Incorrect: It is unnecessary to poll the IsBusy property to report progress.
D. Incorrect: You cannot call the ReportProgress method unless the WorkerReportsProgress property is set to True."

To:
"3. Correct Answer: A, B, D
A. Correct: The ReportProgress method raises the ProgressChanged event and allows you to specify a percentage of progress.
B. Correct: You must handle the ProgressChanged event to implement coed that is executed when progress is reported.
C. Incorrect: It is unnecessary to poll the IsBusy property to report progress.
D. Correct: You cannot call the ReportProgress method unless the WorkerReportsProgress property is set to True."

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