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Windows Forms Programming in C
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Rating: 4.79/5 from 53 reviews Buy It NowCan't say enough about this bookI've been a big fan of Chris Sells since I discovered his website while conducting background research for a telephony project. His website is loaded with well-written and useful information for developers of all levels; this book is no different. Crammed with practical examples, this book manages to avoid what I consider the cardinal sins of most programming books: not knowing the target audience, and not knowing how thin to spread the material. Neither is an issue with this book: there is introductory, intermediate and advanced material covered throughout, none of which is at the expense of any other level; there is little extraneous information and lots of on-target information on what seems like every topic a .NET rich-client developer will face. If you are at all interested in rich-client development, be it UI, controls, components, or soup-to-nuts WinForms development, this book is for you. Where Petzold provides an excellent overview of the basic WinForms objects and namespaces, Sells fills in the gaps in Petzold and expands upon that base to cover issues faced every day by real-world developers. Buy this book; I don't think you'll be disappointed. WinForm Soup to NutsI have purchased several WinForm books but this is the one I use most. Chris does a great job covering the basics while at the same time providing a great deal of advanced material. Every topic covered is provided with code examples which makes it very easy to understand AND apply. The only thing missing from the book is a complete sample application that draws everything together. But to be fair the book covers so much material such a sample application would probably be beyond the scope of the book. If you are trying to decide on a winform book I highly recommend this book. Rest assured this book will help you get to the essence of .net winforms! Even if you don't get the book, do some searches on Chris and you'll come up with a lot of great .net stuff! | ||||||||||||||||||||
After fully assimilating Francesco Balena's "Programming Visual Basic.NET" (coming from a VB6 background) and Jeff Prosise's "Programming .NET" (during my C# transition), both of which I feel are excellent books in a general coverage sense, and after wading through countless MSDN how-to's, whitepapers, and technical articles, I felt generally rounded in .NET development and what the framework has to offer. This book, however, fills in all the gaps and causes everything else to fuse together is a way that feels almost transcendent.
You will come away from it feeling an increased oneness with the .NET framework. You will feel like you have "insider" information on many topics that simply aren't covered adequately, if at all, in the MSDN material. You will have a much more complete understanding of all the various properties exposed by the intrinsic and third party controls in the designer and how to implement rich, professional grade, designer features in your own controls and components.
There simply isn't any doubt this book belongs on the shelf of anyone doing any kind of .NET development. The author's ability to so smoothly impart such a vast amount of knowledge in such a concise, readable, and enjoyable manner is truly wonderful. When they come out with the leather bound edition, I shall not hesitate to order another copy for proper placement next to Knuth, Petzold, and Douglas Adams.