Professional Windows Forms

by Jason Bell, Jan D. Narkiewicz, Benny B. Johansen

Microsoft Windows Forms creates interfaces for client based applications. Developers building Windows-based applications can use their .NET language of choice to create flexible, data-aware Graphical... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861005547
• ISBN13: 9781861005540
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Length: 800 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.2" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A good treatise on windows forms

With practically every book on .NET focusing (screaming ?) on Web Services and ASP.NET, this book is a welcome addition to those like me who write classic applications .. this book has been written wrox-style, with several code samples and a logical progression of content .. since this book has been published before VS.NET release, one can run into minor problems in running the code with the release version of vs.net.. but if you are brave enough to venture into VS.NET, then you should be brave enough to modify and compile them in the release version. Each new control in the toolbox has been discussed in the context of a project .. inheritance has been covered well with good samples .. chapter on components/reports is very new and helpful as these are new to the toolset of the .net programmer .. a comprehensive chapter on deployment will come in handy for those of us who deal with deployment as well ..case study at the end of the book is right-on-target in putting windows forms piece of the .NET into action .. since the title does not refer to either vb.net or c#.net, the code samples and discussions are both in vb.net and c#.net .. again, with all the hoo-ha about web services and asp.net, classic applications are renegated to the back-burner .. but after one installs vs.net and tries to write their first "hello world" program, one will have to start with windows-forms to warm up to vs.net .. this book provides a good foundation for warming-up to vs.net .. could not give a 5-star rating since security issues are not covered