Pro .NET 2.0 Windows Forms and Custom Controls in C#

While many other resources read more like technical reference docs, Pro .NET 2.0 Windows Forms and Custom Controls in C# does an great job of filtering the information down to what developers really (need) to harness the power and innovations we've added to Windows Forms 2.0.

— Shawn Burke, Development Manager, Windows Forms Team, Microsoft Corporation

Renowned author Matthew MacDonald combines careful treatment of the API with detailed user-interface design principles. Further, this book incorporates C# and the final beta of .NET 2.0. The result: thorough coverage of Windows Forms and GDI+ namespaces for you .NET programmers! You will become equipped to design state-of-the-art Windows interfaces and program graphics, and learn how to create your own controls.

As a developer, you must know more than just how to add a control to a window. You must be able to create an entire user interface framework that's scalable, flexible, and reusable. This book is not a reference manual. Instead, it contains detailed discussions about user interface elements that youll use on a regular basis.

About The Author
Matthew MacDonald is an author, educator, and MCSD developer who has a passion for emerging technologies. He is a regular writer for developer journals such as Inside Visual Basic, ASPToday, and Hardcore Visual Studio .NET, and he's the author of several books about programming with .NET, including User Interfaces in VB .NET: Windows Forms and Custom Controls, The Book of VB .NET, and .NET Distributed Applications. In a dimly remembered past life, he studied English literature and theoretical physics. Send e-mail to him with praise, condemnation, and everything in between, to p2p@prosetech.com.

Reader Reviews
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 Comment | | (Report this)