Errata

The question asks:
You are implementing a WPF library. You are defining an event. You want developers to be able to add a handler for the event to an arbitrary element, not just to an element that actually defines or inherits the event. You need to implement the event.

The answer given is "Add a tunneling event to a custom control".

It shoud be "Create an attached event" The intro to the MSDN article on attached events is almost word-for word the same as the second last sentence of the question.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb613550.aspx

Question:
"You are using a WPF ContentControl to display the contents of any database table. You need to dynamically generate a template to use based on the table schema. What should you do?"

Software indicates correct answer as:
"Programmatically build a visual tree of objects and load as a template by using the XAMLReader.Load method."

But the correct answer is:
"Generate a XAML string representing the markup and create the template by using the XAMLReader.Load method."

As stated by explanation:
"Use the XamlReader.Load method to create a visual tree from a XAML string. Assign this visual tree to the ContentTemplate property."

Question:
"Your application includes a class named Supplier. You define a collection of Employees named emps. You need to use LINQ to query emps for all instances where the City property is "Redmond". Which query should you use?"

Errata:
1) Relationship between "supplier" and "employees" isn't defined in question.
2) None of the answers queries "emps" object.

In Practice Exam question 511P_5.5_05, regarding creating a Custom Action in a Windows Installer project, the answer "Create a Library project" is listed as a Correct answer. This is incorrect. Creating a Library project is not a requirement for adding a custom step to a Windows Installer project.

There is also a typographic error in the wording of the question. ("You are using creating a ...")

One of the answer choices is "MenuStrip". However the corresponding explanation entry refers to "MainStrip", which is not the same control. MainStrip would be an incorrect answer to this question, as stated in the explanation. However MenuStrip could be a correct answer.

This book does not actually cover all the material that you can be tested on in the exam. I would advise anyone considering taking this to have a look at:

www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?ID=70-511

and try and figure out what it is they actually want you to know, and read about it on MSDN. Avoid buying anything by this author - it is very badly written and full of mistakes:

http://oreilly.com/catalog/errata.csp?isbn=9780735627420

The step 3 of the description of how to define a new routed event says the routed event should be registered in the constructor. That doesnt work if the constructor isnt static.

The registration must be done as an initialization in the definition of the delegate member since the member is declared static and the constructor of a UIElement derived type normally isnt.

Sentence says: "A class level event handler ... is always invoked before instance handlers". That is only true for tunneling events.
For bubbling events they are called AFTER the instance handlers.

The description jus above the example states that it sets ahead from its current point in the timeline. This seems incorrect since the example uses Origin="BeginTime". It should be "Duration".

The book says:
"If the Stretch property is set to None, you can also change the behavior of ImageBrush by setting the TileMode property."

but the the right is:
We can change the ImageBrush by setting the TileMode property without setting the Stretch property to None.
Stretch ="None" is not necessary to achive tiled image.




the last paragraph is also very suspicious , It says:
"You can set the Viewport property to select a portion of the original source image to use as the tile source"

but I think (because this topic is a bit complex, I am not 100% sure) the the right is:
Viewport property is for selecting a portion of the target object which will be covered by image.

TableLayoutPanel1.Controls.Add(aButton,3,3);

Columns in TableLayoutPanel are numbers starting at 1, whereas rows are numbers starting
at 0. Thus, the preceding example adds aButton to the cell in column 3 at row 3, which is
actually the third column and the fourth row that the user sees


I have created a Win Form project (targeting both v2.0 and v4.0) and i have figured out that its always inserted in 4th row 4th column when viewed.

GrowStyle is set to TableLayoutPanelGrowStyle.AddRows; I have not specified any custom LayoutEngine

TableLayoutControlCollection.Add Method (Control, Int32, Int32) (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/he3sxc2a.aspx) says:

If neither column nor row is -1, control will be added at the absolute position given by (column, row).

Please write to me if you feel i have done something wrong.

Original:
"You can create custom validation rules by implementing the IValidationRule class."

Should be:
"You can create custom validation rules by creating classes that inherit the abstract ValidationRule class"

{Binding} is missing for the label control (XAML given as example for content controls) which is used in the example. Correctly listed for item control.

This leads the reader to the assumption that specifying the binding inside the data template is all that is needed. But the control contol needs to be bound too.

Correct answare for the question - , Chapter 3, lesson 2, ex. 1 is D

To flip object across y-axis you must sest ScaleX = -1 (not ScaleY) as in the book