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This Professional Developer (PRO) Exam 70-548: PRO: Designing and Developing Windows-Based Applications by Using the Microsoft .NET Framework became available May 15, 2006.

Audience profile

Candidates for this exam work on a team in a medium or large development environment that uses Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Developer or Visual Studio 2005. Candidates should have at least two years of experience developing Microsoft Windows-based applications by using the Microsoft .NET Framework. Candidates should have a working knowledge of Visual Studio 2005.

Candidates should have at least three to four years of on-the-job experience dedicated to Windows-based application development and should have worked in the following phases of the application life cycle:

• Technical envisioning and planning

• Design and development

• Stabilizing and releasing

Credit toward certification

When you pass Exam 70-548: PRO: Designing and Developing Windows-Based Applications by Using the Microsoft .NET Framework, you earn credit toward the following certifications:

• Microsoft Certified Professional Developer: Windows Developer

Code languages

When the exam begins, you can choose the programming language in which the code segments will appear. The available code languages for this exam are:

• Microsoft Visual Basic 2005

• Microsoft Visual C# 2005

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2005