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User Interfaces in VB.NET: Windows Forms and Custom Controls
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Author: Matthew MacDonald
List Price: $49.95
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ISBN: 1590590449
Publisher: APress (01 January, 1970)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 69,785
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 4 out of 5
Easy to follow and sufficiently detailed
For someone who has already used other languages for GUI design, this is a great book to get quickly up to speed in the .Net view of Windows forms. It didn't cover everything in enough detail for me but good enough to get me started. I would of liked more on data grid (how about a whole book on it as it's complex enough) and context menus but I eventually figured it out on my own. I could go for an advanced version of this book too.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Comprehensive Guidelines on .NET Controls
I found this book to be excellent. It isn't 100% comprehensive, but it is full of real, practical code and suggestions for using controls. It's the only book I've found that dealt with the treeview, listview, and imagelist in enough detail. Particularly noteworthy are the descriptions on how to create custom controls based on these controls that have built-in application meaning. For example, the book explains how to create a treeview that has a hard-coded "structure" and exposes custom methods for adding/navigating your type of data. Similar advice is given with validation, drag-and-drop, form inheritance, MDI workspaces, and data binding strategies. Basically, the book is a solid guide to mastering .NET controls. Note that this book isn't the best place to learn GDI+. Although there are two excellent chapters on the subject and the basic charting control, both Apress and Wrox provide dedicated GDI+ books that focus more closely on custom drawing. Probably the best example in the book is the document-view architecture with the print preview--simple, elegant, and worth the trouble. Overall, high-content, well-written and genuinely **USEFUL**!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Nothing you wouldnt come up yourself.
Don't get me wrong, this book contains a lot of useful info but its just not enough. This has a little sentence saying Expert's Voice on the top. I would assume that if it is the expert who is writing a book it would be more interesting. This book needs more code and less theory. Book about a user interface should contain more of GDI+ instad of a gradient label and hot track button, which is the thing that absolute beginners of GDI+ controls start with. I dont really recommend buying this book.
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