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Title: Programming Windows with C# (Core Reference) by Charles Petzold ISBN: 0-7356-1370-2 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 19 December, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.08 (63 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent but a Misleading Title
Comment: Programming Microsoft Windows with C#: A Core Reference
As expected, book is an excellent work but title is misleading. I've read the entire book and this is what I found:
1. Excellent book for beginners to write Windows programming with simple Windows controls including brushes, pens, text and fonts, keyboard and mouse events, times, scroll bars, menus, dialog boxes, toolbars and status bars, tree view, list view and printing.
2. Book is well written in a tutorail way, easy to understand.
3. Not much for an advanced developer. If you're looking for some advanced stuff, you may be disappointed.
Overall a must have for .NET beginners and intermediate developers.
Rating: 4
Summary: Update of Standard "Programming Windows" Text
Comment: This is an excellent book for learning to "Program Windows Using C#". Note the title, PROGRAMMING WINDOWS WITH C#. If you are looking to program web applications, XML or databases, or for a C# reference, don't even consider this book. If you want a comprehensive reference, consider O'Reilly's "C# In A Nutshell", it has everything. The author has written identical books for Programming Windows using originally C, then C++ (they were classics). This current version is merely an update to the earlier texts implementing MS's new Visual C#. While I do agree with other reviewers that the text is somewhat simplistic, that is what I expected, and don't feel misled from the title.
Petzold's writing style is easy to understand, and follows methodically in describing the language features, class usage and applications to the .NET SYSTEM and FORMS NameSpaces and their usage. It does an excellent job at describing graphics GDI+ usage (find another current C# book that well documents the .MeasureText method or the lack of XOR drawing modes, I have found no others), images, form element, file handling, etc. I am about 2/3 of the way through (the reason for 4 stars), and am thoroughly satisfied with this work so far. Also, you can't beat the price, this one costs the same as Wrox, SAMS or Prentice-Hall books one fifth the size.
Rating: 4
Summary: Programming with Windows Forms
Comment: If you carefully examine the list of "Topics Covered" given by Amazon, you will not be disappointed at how Petzold does it. No one covers what Petzold chooses to write about more thoroughly and clearly than Petzold. The book definitely assumes familiarity with a C-family language. What is absent is information that his previous "Programming Windows" books gave about the underlying Windows environment, and about interprocess communication. I suppose this is because you can simply link to other code without much work in the new framework. But he does not cover the structure of .NET; the word "Assembly" is not even in his reliable comprehensive index, nor is "Component" or "IComponent." Disposal of resources is only mentioned with regard to graphics objects. The book covers Windows Forms programming, very well, and that's all it is meant for. By all means get this book, but get other books for other purposes.
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Title: Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming by Jeffrey Richter ISBN: 0735614229 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 23 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Programming in the Key of C# by Charles Petzold ISBN: 0735618003 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 30 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Microsoft ADO.NET Step by Step by Rebecca M. Riordan ISBN: 0735612366 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 02 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Windows Forms Programming in C# by Chris Sells ISBN: 0321116208 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 29 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Microsoft ADO.NET (Core Reference) by David Sceppa ISBN: 0735614237 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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