Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2768 EAN: 9780321267962 ISBN: 0321267966 Label: Addison-Wesley Professional Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 1296 Publication Date: May 26, 2006 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Sales Rank: 62460 Studio: Addison-Wesley Professional
Product Description'Windows Forms 2.0 Programmingis the successor to the highly praised Windows Forms Programming in C#. This edition has been significantly updated to amalgamate the sheer mass of new and improved support that is encompassed by Windows Forms 2.0, the .NET Framework 2.0, and Visual Studio 2005. This is the one book developers need in order to learn how to build and deploy leading-edge Windows Forms 2.0 applications. Readers will gain a deep understanding from Sells and Weinhardt's practical, well-balanced approach to the subject and clear code samples. * Windows Forms 2.0 fundamentals, including forms, dialogs, data validation, help, controls, components, and rendering * Static and dynamic layout, snap lines, HTML-style flow and table layout, automatic resizing, and automatic cross-DPI scaling * Office 2003-style tool strip control coverage, including dynamic layout and custom rendering * Design-time integration with the Visual Studio 2005 Properties Window and Smart Tags * Resource management, strongly typed resources, and internationalization considerations * Strongly typed application and user settings * SDI, MDI, Single Instancing, Multiple-Instance SDI, Single-Instance MDI, database-centric, and document-centric applications * Databinding data-source management, drag-and-drop databinding, the BindingSource, the BindingNavigator, and applied databinding * Events, delegates, multithreaded UIs, long-running operations, simplified multithreading with the BackgroundWorker, and asynchronous web service calls * ClickOnce application development publishing, shell integration, and partial trust security * Best practices for developers transitioning from Windows Forms 1.0 and MFC
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - 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, ... Read More
Rating: - 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.
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
- An excellent "go to" resource for WinForms development
