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Windows Forms 2.0 Programming (2nd Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series) |
Author: Chris Sells
Published: 2006-05-26 |
List price: $59.99
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Customer comments on this selection.
 An excellent "go to" resource for WinForms development
After many years of scientific programming using C++ and MFC, I was looking for a book to help make the transition to application development using C#. The authors' treatment of fundamental concepts like dialogs, printing and background worker threads, complete with descriptive examples, continues to make this book extremely useful as a reference in new projects, and when porting legacy code to Windows Forms.
Appendices that deal with the differences between MFC and Windows Forms, as well as a C# implementation of document management will be of particular interest to MFC programmers.
This is a highly recommended addition to any .NET programmer's library.
Excellent book - honors the reader's intelligence
I am not a collector of C# books, although I have reviewed many tens of them before settling on two. Chris Sells' Windows Forms programming is one of them (Jesse Liberty's Programming C# is the other).
Chris does not hand-hold the reader through tediously simple explainations; as other reviewers have mentioned this is not the book to buy if you want photos of which button to click at every step. Instead he provides good high and medium level explanation of every common problem/situation I've encountered with Windows Forms programming (and many more), and backs that up with sample code. That means this is not an attempt to write a comprehensive encyclical, but is enough to solve most problems, and when not, let's one intelligently Google the necessary question.
So far, I've only had one Winforms question that his book could not answer, which dealt with comparing Winforms 2.0 to a new Windows Presentation Foundation version released after the book's publication. Chris answered my question personally the same day I asked him...that's pretty amazing.
Terrific book which is still highly useful
Windows Presentation Foundation has been released and we will all immediately stop doing WinForms development and move to the latest and greatest technology. Right. WPF may take over the world -- but not right now. Plenty of folks will still be doing Windows Forms development for some time. Ergo, this book is a great resource to have on the shelf.
The writing style's clean, clear, and concise, and the examples all show the right level of detail. Graphics throughout the book are good, and there's even a full-color section in the middle of the book to show off how nice various WinForms displays can look. (Although I should note some of the figures there aren't particularly interesting.) A very handy "New" marker in the margins highlights features and functionality new to the .NET 2.0 framework -- a great benefit for folks experienced in 1.1 development who are looking for quick exposure to what's new in 2.0.
The book's content is terrific and extremely useful. There's a solid introduction which hits all the important fundamentals of WinForms development and also hits the right features you'll need in Visual Studio. There's awfully good coverage on basics such as form lifecycle, MDI basics, data validation, and why/how properties are important in WinForms development.
The authors do a very solid job laying out other important concepts like data binding and validation. There's also a great amount of background on localization through the entire book, and I found the chapter on resources particularly informative. The bits on components and custom controls were also a very good read.
Overall it's a solid book and very useful for folks still working in WinForms development.
An exceptional work
This book is great, exceptional, outstanding.
The authors take on a subject of mind-boggling complexity, and manage to structure their way into a readable, understandable explanation. It's not a reference book: you have to read your way through it from cover to cover, once, to gain an understanding of Froms 2.0. Yet such reading is probably the most efficient way for you to learn the subject. Thereafter, use it as a "how-to" reference for specific items and techniques.
Also, it assumes familiarity with both the c# language and the casual use of VS05. Having first done some elementary c# programming on VS05, read the book and it'll be an eye-opener.
Outstanding
The writing style is easy to follow, the coverage is comprehensive, and there are details and tips throughout the book that distinguish it from other books on the subject.
The authors clearly leverage their knowledge and experience. Sample code is clear and concise. There are many things in Windows Forms that you simply should or should not do; the authors convey these best practices in an expedient fashion.
The book is relatively new, and there is not an errata page on the AW website, however I noticed only a very small number of errors.
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