Prepare for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-536 with this official Microsoft study guide. You'll work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective.

Led by two enterprise programming experts, you'll learn how to apply the patterns and techniques that help control project complexity and make systems easier to build, support, and upgrade right from the start.

Bestselling author Jesse Liberty and industry expert Alex Horovitz uncover the common threads that unite the .NET 3.5 technologies, so you can benefit from the best practices and architectural patterns baked into this generation of Microsoft frameworks.

This book is a tutorial meant for programmers who already know an object-oriented language and want to apply their knowledge in the standardized environment provided by the Microsoft .NET Framework. It aims to untangle the Common Language Runtime.

.NET 3.5 provides dozens of new C# language features and .NET APIs. This edition of the book will walk you through all of this new material.