Developing.Net Custom Controls and Designers Using C

by James Henry

Tools and services for enhancing design-time support for components. Irregularly-shaped, borderless Windows Forms. Advanced techniques on building simple and complex UITypeEditors. Details of how type... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0972317910
• ISBN13: 9780972317917
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Bluevision Llc
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.1" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Great book but definitely not for the beginner.

I've been developing custom controls in C# for 3 months now after developing custom Java controls for years. I must say initially that this book was not much help. If you need a real beginner book that holds your hand step by step buy Petzold. However, after delving into the intricacies of Windows Forms you'll definitely find this book useful. The OutlookTab example in this book invaluable. It's a real world example and the author tackles some of the more advanced development topics. I agree with other reviewers that this book is not as clear as you would hope. Also you will definitely still need to read the MSDN docs and probably look at the some disassembly to get a good grasp of developing your own custom controls.

For Experts Only -- But Worth It

Covers every aspect a serious control developer needs to know. I especially liked the detailed coverage of how to include designers and resources with web controls. Light on fluff, heavy on code. Author also helped me with complex problems via e-mail. Can't beat that!

Data Binding Coverage is Excellant

This book provides the best coverage on data binding(30 pages) I have yet seen. This chapter alone makes the book a worthy purchase.