This preparation course is for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-536—and on the job Your kit includes:


•15% exam discount from Microsoft. Offer expires 12/31/10.

•Official self-paced study guide.

•Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results.

•450 practice and review questions.

•Case scenarios and lab exercises.

•Code samples on CD.

•90-day evaluation version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition.

•Fully searchable eBook.

Candidates for this exam work on a team in a medium-sized or large development environment that uses Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Developer, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, or Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.


Candidates for this exam work on a team in a medium-sized or large development environment that uses Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Developer, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, or Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.

Exam 70-536: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework - Application Development Foundation: counts as credit toward the following certification(s):

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): .NET Framework 2.0 Web Applications Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist

(MCTS): .NET Framework 2.0 Windows Applications Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist

(MCTS): .NET Framework 2.0 Distributed Applications Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist

(MCTS): .NET Framework 3.5, Windows Presentation Foundation Applications Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist

(MCTS): .NET Framework 3.5, Windows Communication Foundation Applications Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist

(MCTS): .NET Framework 3.5, Windows Workflow Foundation Applications Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist

(MCTS): .NET Framework 3.5, Windows Forms Applications Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist

(MCTS): .NET Framework 3.5, ADO.NET Applications Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist

(MCTS): .NET Framework 3.5, ASP.NET Applications

Candidates should have experience developing Web-based, Windows-based, distributed applications by using the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0.

The .NET Framework 1.1, the .NET Framework 2.0, or the .NET Framework 3.5.

Candidates should have a knowledge of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio 2008.

Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to:


•Use system types, collections, and generics to help manage data

•Validate input, reformat text, and extract data with regular expressions


•Develop services, application domains, and multithreaded applications

•Enhance your application by adding graphics and images

•Implement code access security, role-based security, and data encryption

•Work with serialization and reflection techniques

•Instrument your applications with logging and tracing

•Interact with legacy code using COM Interop and PInvoke