Customer Reviews

Graphics Programming with GDI+

5 star:		(17)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

There is nothing in this book that is not in the MSDN documentation (comes with Visual Studio, and is freely available at the MSDN site). In some cases, this book actually tells you less than the class library reference help. E.g., the example code regarding metafiles in MSDN has more detail than this book -- and that's not a lot! The examples in the book are just way too simplistic. In places, it seems plain that the help reference has basically been copied. Every time I check this book when I'm facing a real-world problem, the book is useless. There is nothing regarding best practices. It almost seems as though the author has not done serious work with GDI. Other books in this series from Addison are ok, but not this one.

I was very disappointed with this book. I needed a book to help me make the jump from GDI to GDI+ and this was most certainly not that book. This was little more than a rehashing of the .NET framework library help file as far as far as I could tell, with all its limitations. It offers little or no additional value.

There were no useful discussions of the underlying abstract coordinate system of GDI+. Oh sure there was a rudimentary discussion of the Cartesian coordinate system, but no real discussion of how the vector shapes you draw in GDI+ get rendered on pixels, and how this can lead to all sorts of frustrating "off by one pixel" issues.

There was no dicussion about why DrawRectangle and FillRectangle seem to draw rectangles of different sizes. In fact, the caption in one drawing in the book makes me think the author has no idea this issue even exists.

There are no explanation of the subtle issues surrounding metafiles (like why do I still need a hDC, since hDCs are no longer used in GDI+) and on and on the list goes.

I can browse through the list of methods and properties in the .NET framework just fine, thanks. What I really need is a book that talks about the subtle issues of GDI+.

My recommendation to you? Buy one of Petzold's new .NET books. They aren't specific to GDI+, but there's a heck of lot better information in the sections he devotes to GDI+ than there is in this lousy book.

Little more than a rewriting of the GDI+ help file with minimalist samples of the main functions. No discussion of why you might want to use particular functions and - despite what other reviewers have said - no serious discussion of real-life examples at all. (The closest thing to a useful program discussed is an - ugly - clone of Paint - which I would NOT consider a example to be proud of.) The pictures are all in black-and-white, which is ludicrous in a book that deals with colour graphics, even if colour versions are available for download. Don't even THINK about looking in here for techniques to use GDI+ to make Windows programming easier.

If i say that this book is good, then its wrong because it is excellent for GDI+.
This book includes all things about GDI+. The way of explaining is totally amazing like first author explains What is GDI+", Its very benificial for beginners who want to learn more about GDI+. Next author explains the defferences between GDI+ and
GDI. Now the topics - Graphics Class, Working with Brushes and Pens, Colors Fonts and Text, Rectangles and Regions and working with Images are the basics for the beginners. Intermediate user can see their valuable topics like - Advance Imaging, Advance 2D Graphics, Transformations and Printing. Advance users can enhance thier knowledge with the topics - Developing GDI+ Web Applications, GDI+ Best Practice, GDI Interoperability and Miscellaneous GDI+ Examples.

Also some featured topics are -

Optimization of drawing quality
Interactive color blending
Printing a .NET
Viewing and manipulating images
FAQs for GDI+

definetly improves the knowledge and interest about GDI+.
Graphics Programming in GDI+ gives some special treatment for effective programming in GDI+ in .NET Framework.
At last really its amazing...

This is an excellent book on graphics programming for GDI+ in C#. It covers everything: rendering, images, image-manipulation, 2D graphics, transformations, printing, GDI for the Web, and Custom Controls. Well-written, good explanations, and source for both C# and VB.Net. Light on animation, but DirectDraw is where you'd go for heavy-duty animation. Use it to make your own controls with your own look-and-feel.

There are so few books on GDI+ that when one comes along It's usually worth reading, even more so when they are as high in quality as this title.

Beginning from first principles this book takes the reader through the use of GDI+ in a clear and concise style. The graphics class, structures, drawing objects, methods, properties and procedures are thoroughly explained.

Two dimensional graphics, coordinate systems, image manipulation and their integration into a windows forms application are explained with well written examples In C# code. The book also covers printing using graphics and text with clear explanations of how to set printer and page parameters as well as a section for web programmers that details how to use GDI+ In an ASP+ context.

Whether you're just beginning GDI+ programming or already have experience with windows forms and the graphic system, this book will make a great addition to your bookshelf. Certainly, this book is good enough for it to become the featured title in the GDI+ FAQ.

Simply the best...
This book is the best practicle guide a developer can have with him if he needs to work with GDI+. The most refreshing part of the book is the examples that are part of the book.

For a developer like me who has to work under narrow deadlines, this book helped me do the stuff with less time spent looking and researching for stuff.

I am not so much of a MSDN reader, quite frankly MSDN gets me confused, and GDI+ is a subject that needs a structured approach to it. hence, msdn only provides much more info than required hence creating confusion.

I would recomend this to every developer who wants to play with GDI+.

Definitely one of the books you want in your shelf. I usually use it as a reference book. This book is full with sample code which MSDN is missing. Author also goes in the depth of many topics with interesting and fun samples.

Many topics are covered in details. Full chapters on Fonts and Colors, rectangles and regions, two chapters on images tells you that author has done enough research on GDI+. In other books I usually found couple of pages on these topics.

I admire the Printing chapter. Almost 100 pages chapter. WHOAaa... Every thing about pinting in .NET including customization on printing related dialogs.

Great reference book. Worth spending your money. Well recommended.

I'm really impressed with Addison-Wesley's .NET Development series and they have some great authors on their roster - Mahesh Chand is definitely one of them. There are many GDI+ books out there, most of them are quite good. As a matter of fact, I've really liked every one that I've come across. However, Mahesh has a really cool perspective and gets right to the point. He doesn't just tell you what to do, he tells you why to do it. I know, this annoys the 'pragmatists' out there, but trust me, no matter how much you don't like theory and only want examples, you'll like this book. GDI+ is a pretty specific topic, but there are a ton of great examples here and I couldn't recommend this book more. The fact that he runs www.c-sharpcorner.com only made me want to buy his stuff more.

Great Job!

There are not too many books dedicated to GDI+ and Graphics Programming in .NET but this book is definitely one of the finest technical books written on GDI+. As such I am a big fan of AW's .NET Series managed by Don Box and group because of the quality of contents and experts involved in the series.

This book delivers what is promises. Author's writing style is pretty straight forward, which I liked the most. Author talks to the point. As a beginner, you will get it right away.

There are some chpaters such as performance and best practices, Advanced Imaging, Advanced 2D, Transformation and Printing where advanced users will definitely learn what is not discussed in MSDN documentation or in any other books.

All explainations are followed by a sample code, which is pretty nice to have. Just read and run the code. All samples in the book are a seperate project so that's kinda cool.

If you are involve with writing drawing, printing, painting, and UI applications for Windows Forms or Web, you may want to try this one.