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Summary: good book
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Summary: Excellant work
Review: This book should be always next to us. So far twice I read this book. Each time I found new things. Particularly Design Time Integration. No one has touched this subject so elegantly. Even though there were some articles in MSDN. Once I wrote to Chris Sells asking him to write exclusively on Custom Control. He has satisfied my wish through this book.Another topic that I should mention is Resources. This explains from basics to in-depth.
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Summary: Easy reading on a difficult topic
Review: My favorite aspect of the book is its clear language and informal style. It's easy and even fun to read so it's not just sitting on my shelf looking cool - I'm actually making my way through it. I surprised myself by enjoying even the overview chapter at the beginning of the book - I usually think those can't hope to cover enough to make them useful - but I learned a bunch of stuff I'd been curious about (embedded resources, isolated storage, etc.).
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Summary: The best of the best
Review: This book provides developers with a practical guide for building a Windows Forms application. If you buy just one book on Windows Forms, this should be the one!
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Summary: Best Windows Forms book I've read!
Review: Before buying Chris's book, a friend recommended another book as the best C# WinForms book, so I bought that one. It was my second one on this subject. I didn't find anything useful in it, and I almost concluded that all WinForms books were going to be worthless for me. However, I still needed some good answers to WinForms questions, and resources such as the newsgroups weren't giving them to me. So I bought this book and a few others as a last effort to find intelligent coverage of this topic. Chris Sell's book totally changed my opinion of WinForms books -- Chris has shown that it is possible to cover this subject the way Troelsen covered an introduction to C# (Troelsen's book was voted best .NET book in the world, btw.) This is a highly useful book full of intelligent information. It covers the basics, but also provides depth and detail. I'm a good C# programmer, but I have done very little with WinForms. This was definitely the book I needed. I really think it is the right book for almost any level of WinForms experience. There are good tips in here that will benefit experienced WinForms developers. For example, I've seen smart people debate certain WinForms issues on the newsgroups in lengthy threads, without a clear resolution -- one quick read of a section in Chris's book could have clarified and resolved the issue(s). For every topic like this that I needed to understand, Chris took me from the basics to a full and in-depth understanding. (I almost feel like going back to all those newsgroup threads and posting answers out of Chris's book. It would make me look like a genius. If you want to be smarter than the average WinForms "expert", read this book.)
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Summary: This book rules
Review: Building a cool UI is a must for any production program, and this book will get you there. Lot's of practical information, that's well written, easy to use and interesting. There are a lot of books on manipulating WinForms and I've liked most of what I read. For someone to write on a well discussed subject and make it cool and interesting takes some talent, and Chris does just that!
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Summary: Very engaging and thorough text
Review: This book is excellent in leading the reader through new concepts in a conversational direction, including the missteps that you are likely to make while learning this technology. It does have a C# focus and is assuming that the reader is coming from a C++ background, but even if you are coming from other technologies (such as VB), you will find much wealth of information. I was most impressed with the walkthroughs on resource localization, and if you are interested in low-level graphics, you will find much to study. Highly recommended book.
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Summary: An excellent book
Review: This book is really good. The main ideas of C# programing short and clear. By the way,this isn't a reffence book.
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Summary: Great book
Review: Even if you think you know everything about Windows forms, this book will teach you a bunch of tricks. One of the main strengths of this book is that it is very detailed and yet pretty easy to read. Great job Chris!
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Summary: Great comprehensive book
Review: As an architect on the .NET Client Team, that produced Windows Forms, I find Chris' book to be an excellent overview of the breadth of Windows Forms. The first section does such a great job of providing an overview of the basic features, and then the rest of the book serves as a great drill down into each feature area. Throughout the book Chris lets his fun personality shine through, making the book very enjoyable to read. I highly recommend this for anyone that wants to learn about Windows Forms.
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