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Windows Forms in Action: Second Edition of Windows Forms Programming with C#

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I am a former VB6 programmer moving to C#. I have close to 15 C# books and I'm happy to say virtually every one is good in its own way. However, this is the one book I have chosen to carefully step through - and actually do the tutorial-coding along with the author. It is a remarkable book - can't say enough about Erik's abilities as a teacher. I also wanted to mention that most of the reviews for this book can be found under the first edition of this book. (I'm bringing this up because I couldn't understand why there weren't more reviews about this excellent book!) I don't have the first edition but I can tell you the glowing reviews there must also apply to this edition. (The first edition has a slightly different name - Windows Forms Programming with C#.) In any case, THANK YOU, Erik, for a fantastic job - As I work through each chapter, I am gaining very relevant and helpful new knowledge.

This second edition of Windows Forms Programming with C# is an almost wholly new and extensively revised edition to take advantage of the Microsoft .NET 2.0 environment. The book is largely in tutorial format, it creates a sample application and throughout the book modifies and extends the application until the full range of capabilities are covered. As with the earlier book, there is a heavy reliance on C# and the Visual Studio system. In fact, the book has been used as a C#/Visual Studio text by some people although this is not its main focus.

By the time you finish the book, you will completely under the System.Windows.Forms namespace. You will have a good solid start with C# and at least a working knowledge of Visual Studio. The strong point of the application that is being developed throughout the book is that it is a useful, real, and robust application. Thus these aspects of what is needed in real life development, be it of forms or something else is also taught.

This is a very well written and informative book on a real application for .NET.

This book creates and follows a single sample application throughout the book. Each chapter introduces additional windows form capabilities and integrates them into the sample application. This is an interesting approach and probably works if you have the time and patience to work through the book. However, most developers using windows forms are working under a deadline, and this book cannot be used to look up how to do things with a control. For example, if you need to learn how to use a tree view - or any other control - you can't just turn to the chapter on tree view and see a small self-contained example. What you see is a tree view fully integrated with the sample application. This makes it difficult to extract out what you need for your application. This makes the book not very useful. I recommend Windows Forms 2.0 Programming by Chris Sells instead.

This is a really good book but the reader needs to have a really good understanding of c# object oriented programming first.

So if you know c# really well one would think that you would already know windows forms as well?

I'm struggling to see who can use this book besides someone looking to tweak expand and tweak their existing windows forms skills.

The book and sale is exactly what I was looking for. WIth exceptional sesrvice and delivery made the purchaes that much easier.

I have read couple other books on this subject and this one is my favourite. The chapters are very systematically arranged. The book also comes in handy as a quick reference guide to methods / properties supported in the System.Windows.Forms namespace.

Muy buen libro, ,explica detalladamente el uso de las herramientas y cada uno de sus atributos y explica muy bien gráficamente. Explica muy bien la programación en C#, para personas conocedoras y que desconocen del mismo.

Excelente para desarrollar una aplicación de ejemplo o ejercicio ya que durante la lectura uno va mejorando lo hecho y no se pierde la enseñanza. Explica controles que desconocía la función como álbum de datos.

Carlos Enrique Portillo

Just bought this book and found nothing interesting for me.
Before I expected something promissing to work with forms.
Returned book to Amazon.