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Pro .NET 2.0 Windows Forms and Custom Controls in C# View Larger Image | Matthew MacDonald
Apress, Paperback, Published December 2005, 750 pages, ISBN 1590594398 | List Price: $49.99
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"While many other resources read more like technical reference docs,
Pro .NET 2.0 Windows Forms and Custom Controls in C# does an excellent
job of filtering the information down to what developers really (need) to
harness the power and innovations we've added to Windows Forms 2.0."
-- Shawn Burke, Development Manager, Windows Forms Team,
Microsoft Corporation
Renowned author Matthew MacDonald combines careful treatment of the API with
detailed user-interface design principles. Further, this book incorporates C#
and the final beta of .NET 2.0. The result: thorough coverage of Windows Forms
and GDI+ namespaces for you .NET programmers! You will become equipped to design
state-of-the-art Windows interfaces and program graphics, and learn how to create
your own controls.
As a developer, you must know more than just how to add a control to a window.
You must be able to create an entire user interface framework that's scalable,
flexible, and reusable. This book is not a reference manual. Instead, it contains
detailed discussions about user interface elements that you’ll use on a
regular basis.
Table of Contents
Foreword xxv
About the Author xxvii
About the Technical Reviewer xxix
Acknowledgments xxxi
Introduction xxxiii
PART 1 Windows Forms Fundamentals
CHAPTER 1 User Interface Architecture 3
CHAPTER 2 Control Basics 41
CHAPTER 3 Forms 73
CHAPTER 4 The Classic Controls 111
CHAPTER 5 Images and Resources 151
CHAPTER 6 Lists and Trees 173
CHAPTER 7 Drawing with GDI+ 211
CHAPTER 8 Data Binding 263
PART 2 Custom Controls
CHAPTER 9 Custom Control Basics 321
CHAPTER 10 User Controls 337
CHAPTER 11 Derived Controls 365
CHAPTER 12 Owner-Drawn Controls 389
CHAPTER 13 Design-Time Support for Custom Controls 425
PART 3 Modern Controls
CHAPTER 14 Tool, Menu, and Status Strips 477
CHAPTER 15 The DataGridView 521
CHAPTER 16 Sound and Video 579
CHAPTER 17 The WebBrowser 593
vi CONTENTS AT A GLANCE
PART 4 Windows Forms Techniques
CHAPTER 18 Validation and Masked Editing 615
CHAPTER 19 Multiple and Single Document Interfaces 655
CHAPTER 20 Multithreading 693
CHAPTER 21 Dynamic Interfaces and Layout Engines 733
CHAPTER 22 Help Systems 781
PART 5 Advanced Custom Controls
CHAPTER 23 Skinned Forms and Animated Buttons 815
CHAPTER 24 Dynamic Drawing with a Design Surface 845
CHAPTER 25 Custom Extender Providers 879
CHAPTER 26 Advanced Design-Time Support 893
APPENDIX A Creating Usable Interfaces 935
APPENDIX B ClickOnce 951
INDEX 971
About the Author
Matthew MacDonald is an author, educator, and MCSD developer who has a passion
for emerging technologies. He is a regular writer for developer journals such
as Inside Visual Basic, ASPToday, and Hardcore Visual Studio .NET, and he's
the author of several books about programming with .NET, including User Interfaces
in VB .NET: Windows Forms and Custom Controls, The Book of VB .NET, and .NET
Distributed Applications. In a dimly remembered past life, he studied English
literature and theoretical physics.
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