I have finally decided to do my last upgrade exam to be an Enterprise Application Developer. For each exam passed when they were in beta, Person Vue was handing me a free exam to take before the end of February. So, why not do it, I have already studied for it last year and the experience of this year can just help. I’m pretty sure I will pass.

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcpd/entapp/default.mspx

The big difference between the 70-305 (ASP.NET) and 70-310 (XML Web Service) is the lack of interest. I liked to study the ASP.NET certification because I was using it everyday. I’ve learned so much in so little time that I (I think) became very efficient with web development. When I say web development I do not talk about design and stuff, because this is where I lack some interest in these times. Generally, I try to learn as much as I can, in my spare time, but this domain I try to stay out at this time. I really enjoy writing object-oriented code and since I’m just beginning I’m learning almost all of the time. Maybe some days, I will be interested more with HTML and XHTML and CSS.

So for the 70-310, my current advice is to get through every aspect of XML files. How to query SQL Server to return XML, W3C specifications, synchronizing XMLDataDocument with DataSet, navigating through node. And almost as important of know how to write the code, know the terms! There is so much term for everything, it can be a pain to read documentation and still don’t understand anything.

Oh, and I just got Gran Turismo 4 on Playstation 2. Really great game. But it stills not a subject I will venture into.

I just got through XML Web Services and they talk a lot about Serialization and I found out that they don’t really go through the explanation of what is happening in the process. So I borrowed a book from a friend called “Designing Enterprise Applications with Visual Basic.Net. This book clears every single question I had. I think that I can’t post the text from the book, so here is a link on MSDN abot that. Sorry C# guys, but you will have to translate. I don’t think this a problem anyway :).