Hi RhinoMonkey,
Since exam 70-483 is still in development, and won’t be released before October, it’s unlikely that you’ll find any formal texts for this exam any time soon. In fact, when I checked the Microsoft Press website for upcoming releases, although their book release
dates stretch into early 2013, there is no mention of a 70-483 text.
Therefore, as Mr. Wharty suggested, you could use the “Skills Measured” section on the exam 70-483 page to evaluate resources you might find on MSDN or elsewhere, including other C# texts not specifically published for the 70-483 exam.
As far as I know, Exam 70-483 covers C# 5.0 and the .NET 4.5 Framework, and today on Amazon I came across a new release from my favorite C# publisher, Apress, that might interest you. It’s called
Pro C# 5.0 and the .NET 4.5 Framework, by Andrew Troelsen, and was published three weeks ago.
The previous edition of this book,
Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, is very highly rated on Amazon (4.5/5.0 stars), so you might use that as a guide to the current edition.
I haven’t reviewed the book in detail, but I skimmed it, scanned the table of contents, and did a cursory comparison with the “Skills Measured” section for exam 70-483, as well as Microsoft’s
Course 20483A (Programming in C#), and the book compares favorably.
I’m still using C# 4.0 and .NET 4, so this book doesn’t interest me personally, but you might want to check it out. I hope you find it useful.
