What can I say about this book? It is specialized for passing specific Microsoft Exam. If you are going to pass 536 exam you 100% need it. If you just want to learn some core things about developing applications with .net, book is not best choice. It will lead you through big portion of class names, different methods and enumerations, which could be easily seen in MSDN documentation up to date. I would even say that books like authors took everything possible from MSDN that is related to exam. Also book have mistakes, which I think should not be in such books. Plus to that book is dry to read, but you can read it fast if you know how.

How to read book:

• Read accurately but quick if theme is familiar to you.Skip “Real Word” and pay attention on “Important” and “Exam Tip”, try to remember it!
• If there are boring explanation and then code, switch first to code and analyze if you understand everything there, and if that is true, don’t return back to text.
• Do not execute Labs unless you do not understand what you had read.
• If there are difficult chapters try to read them twice – I did this with Application Security.

I would recommend this book if you are going to pass exam, if not just check-out maybe there are some interesting things that you should know, but do not read book whole end-to-end.