Programming Microsoft(r) Windows(r) Forms

by Charles Petzold

Whether you're a new or experienced developer, get the focused information you need to streamline application development using Windows Forms and Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. Award-winning author Charles Petzold illuminates the essential concepts and techniques for exploiting Windows Forms capabilities--offering concise, eloquent instruction as always, along with ample code examples in C#.

Discover how Understand the architecture of Windows Forms programs Add familiar Windows controls to your application, such as buttons, scroll bars, and text boxes Create toolbars, menus, and status bars, complete with text and bitmap images Enhance existing controls, combine multiple controls, or create custom controls from scratch Exploit dynamic layout with FlowLayoutPanel Support absolute, proportional, or auto-sized columns and rows with TableLayoutPanel Develop data-bound controls Display tabular data with the new DataGridView control--without writing extensive code PLUS--Build and deploy two real-world Windows Forms applications from the bottom up

Genres: Technology

400 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 9, 2005

About the author

Charles Petzold has been writing about programming for Windows-based operating systems for 24 years. A Microsoft MVP for Client Application Development and a Windows Pioneer Award winner, Petzold is author of the classic Programming Windows, currently in its sixth edition and one of the best-known programming books of all time; the widely acclaimed Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software; and more than a dozen other books.

Reviews

[Bob · Rating 2 out of 5]

A good beginner's book, but if you're looking for something meaty to help you understand the intricacies of Winforms programming in C#, look elsewhere.

Also annoying to see copyright notices for every line of code. Copyrighting "hello, world"? Really? Shouldn't that be in the public domain, Charles?