Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133 EAN: 9780735621534 ISBN: 0735621535 Label: Microsoft Press Manufacturer: Microsoft Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: November 30, 2005 Publisher: Microsoft Press Sales Rank: 37823 Studio: Microsoft Press
Product DescriptionWindows Forms can streamline the development of a variety of applications#151;but many Windows-related programming books skip over the details that allow developers to take full advantage of Windows Forms capabilities. In addition, Version 2.0 of the Microsoft .NET Framework introduces new capabilities that even those familiar with early versions of Windows Forms will want to learn to use. Written by Charles Petzold#151;one of the premier authors in the developer community#151;this book offers a concise, focused tutorial suitable for new and experienced Windows Forms developers who want to expedite their productivity with Microsoft Visual Studio- 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0. The book features insightful code samples in Microsoft Visual C#- 2005.
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Rating: - Easy to follow introduction into windows forms
Programming Microsoft Windows Forms is a great introduction into windows forms. It takes the magic out of windows programming by showing how to do everything from scratch, which, with windows forms, turns out to be pretty easy.
I haven't programmed for windows since MFC, COM, and Visual Studio 6 were considered new. Windows forms makes a lot of the tasks that used to be tedious easy and Petzold as always is very easy to follow.
Although this book is not an introduction into ... Read More
Rating: - Updated to 2.0!
This book is a good updated to his first book on programming forms in C# 1.1. There have been alot of useful changes from C# 1.1 to 2.0. I just wish he would rewrite the first book with the 2.0 updates instead.
Rating: - Not for RAD programmers.
This book is, as the author explains, done in Petzold style. Meaning it is shown with the code behind the GUI tools instead of being done with the tools. Unfortunately any forms which are built with code cannot then be manipulated with the GUI tools which defeats the intention of the makers of Visual Studio as a Rapid Application Developement (RAD) tool.
If all you have however is the compiler and a text editor then this book is for you but since Visual C# is freely available you can write ... Read More
Rating: - nice book to start c# and writing code for forms
I wanted to do some windows programming in C#, bougt a lot of books but found this the only one that really helped.
Rating: - The BEST Introduction to C#, WinForms. and .net 2.0
This is hands down the most clearly-written explanation of programing windows forms using C# that I have read or seen on the market. Petzold has an easy and engaging writing style. He takes the time to explain the WHAT and the WHY of what you are doing. This is a great book for someone just sitting down to Visual Studio 2005 to begin learning C# programming. His examples and walkthroughs produce useful and functioning examples of the most common aspects of Win Form programming. My only complaint is ... Read More
- Easy to follow introduction into windows forms
- Not for RAD programmers.
- nice book to start c# and writing code for forms
