Rating:  - Good WinForms and Custom Controls Book
This book gives a good overview of each control, but is really centered on teaching you how to develop custom user controls and how to get them to work well with the VS 2005 IDE (Tool panel and Properties window). It also covers owner drawn controls using GDI+. The downloadable code samples demonstrate everything in the book. However, it doesn't appear that the author actually tried to compile all of them, as there are many with fixible errors (mostly project setup ones), and one, that uses an xlst file to install a SQL database that does not have the required procedures. Thankfully, the author responded to me with questions I had and sent me a new database file. One major positive is that the book is not filled with code listings. The author only shows the specific code segments that he is talking about. I learned a lot from this book. It loses a star though for the sloppy C# program examples.
Rating:  - Awesome Information
This book was a great read and I found it extremely useful in learning many basic as well as many advanced topics that are essential in WinForms development.
Rating: - Didática Perfeita
Esse livro contém todos os ingredientes necessários para você poder dar uma boa avançada em C#, explica muitas coisas a respeito do uso de técnicas envolvendo Windows Form e User Control e até classes.
Rating: - Nice Look At Custom Controls
Pro .NET 2.0 Windows Forms and Custom Controls in C# by Matthew MacDonald provides a nice introduction (well more than that with a book that is ~1000 pages long) to controls in the .NET 2.0 world.
Since noone else has provided a chapter listing, I will do so:
01. UI Architecture
02. Control Basics
03. Forms
04. Classic Controls
05. Images and Resources
06. Lists & Trees
07. Drawing with GDI+
08. Data Binding
09. Custom Controls Basics
10. User Controls
11. Derived Controls
12. Owner-Drawn Controls
13. Design-Time Support for Custom Controls
14. Tool, Menu, Status Strips
15. DataGridView
16. Sound & Video
17. WebBrowser control
18. Validation & Masked Editing
19. Multiple and Single Document Interfaces
20. Multithreading
21. Dynamic Interfaces
22. Help Systems
23. Skinned Forms & Animated Buttons
24. Dynaming Drawing with a Design Surface
25. Custom Extender Providers
26. Advanced Design-Time Support
If you do Windows server/client development in today's day and age and want to learn about all the new controls that are offered to programmers with .NET 2.0, you owe it to yourself to pick up this book and start learning how to build forms and UI components faster than ever!!!
**** RECOMMENDED
Rating: - Excellent Windows Forms and Custom Controls Coverage
This book covers everything you need to know about Windows Forms and Custom Controls. It is very thorough and well written.
The code samples work well and are well organized.
It doesn't cover the smart client gamut, like data storage, communication, or architecture in context to smart client applications. Which is ok. No book currently out covers smart client properly, but windows forms are the front end to smart clients so it would have been nice to have them placed into the smart client context.
And just to clear up the review below. Turn to page 94 for all the classic common dialogs. Mathew didn't miss anything in this book. Relate to Windows Forms UI development.
He also emphasizes using proper UI architecture and getting business logic out of the UI and develops his samples accordingly.
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