Bestselling author Jesse Liberty and industry expert Alex Horovitz uncover the common threads that unite Microsoft's .NET 3.5 technologies, so that developers can benefit from the best practices and architectural patterns baked into the new frameworks. The book offers a 'Grand Tour' of .NET 3.5 that shows how its principle technologies -- including the much discussed WPF (Windows Presentation Framework), WCF (Windows Communication Foundation), and WF (Windows Workflow Foundation) frameworks -- can be used with ASP.NET AJAX, LINQ and Silverlight to build a modern n-tier application.