Learn .NET 3.5

Question

What are the best resources for a C#/.NET 2.0 developer for learning .NET 3.5? I'm struggling to learn ASP.NET MVC and I feel that a lot of my stumbling blocks have to do with not ever having explicitly studied 3.5.

Note: I know there are already these questions, but they both seem to focus on ASP.NET

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/282086/learning-c-asp-net-3-5-what-order-should-i-learn-in-what-to-skip
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/276229/best-book-on-aspnet-35-c-programming

Answer 1

MVC has really changed the game on how everything works if you come from traditional ASP.NET Web Forms. I would recommend the following books:

• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Website Programming
• Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0
• ASP.NET 3.5 Website Programming

Answer 2

You could try browsing MSDN from What's New in the .NET Framework Version 3.5.

Answer 3

I highly recommend reading "C# in Depth" by Jon Skeet. While it's focus isn't specifically the .NET framework, it gives a great overview of the changes of the C# language over time and introduces all of the new stuff in C# 3 (which overlap the .NET framework 3.5).

NOTE: Nothing specific to ASP.NET here, but again, it gives you the foundation.