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Title: User Interfaces in C#: Windows Forms and Custom Controls by Matthew MacDonald ISBN: 1-59059-045-7 Publisher: APress Pub. Date: 27 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (8 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Best book I've Seen on Winforms Programming
Comment: I am very tempted to give this book five stars, which I rarely do. It's that good.

I expected the usual run-through of forms and controls, but this book goes much deeper than that. Several chapters devote themselves to design issues in three-tier applications-- how to move information between a presentation layer and a business layer in an orderly, organized fashion. Since VS.Net is used so often for sloppy database front-ends, good advice has been hard to come by in this area.

So why only four stars? This book appears to be a port of an earler book covering the same issues within the context of VB.Net. That doesn't detract from the quality of its content, but the editors missed a few translations from VB to C#. These misses are pretty minor; for example, VB-style brackets are used on attributes (, instead of [attribute]), and internal classes are described as being preceded by the 'Friend' keyword.

Subject to those minor qualifications, I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn how to program WinForms, and to anyone who wants to learn how to design a proper three-tier application in C#>

Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Find!
Comment: After reading many articles on 3-tier architecture and never really understanding what the concept was exactly, finally a book that clears it up.

The author explains this, as well as Windows Forms and user controls in a very eloquent manner. He has a way of relaying the information in a way that is immediately grasped.

I recommend this book highly. There are a lot of Windows programming books out there for the .NET platform, some are good, but most of them only tinker around with the obvious. This one "opens the hood" and shows you the secrets of Windows desktop application programming.

One thing though... in all the books I have read on Windows programming, I have yet to come across one that explains how to save and retrieve data to disk, other than the common File Stream example or a discussion of databases. This one doesn't do any better. I had to scan many internet discussion groups to finally get my answer ... serialization with binary data..... UGH!

Why an in-depth discussion of binary serialization is not included in these books is amazing. What good is a desktop application if you can't present and save user data without database files.

Overall though, this book met my expectations, and then some.

Rating: 5
Summary: Better than other Windows Forms books
Comment: Much better than Windows Forms Programming with C# by Erik Brown. This book has useful object oriented GUI design information too. I highly recommend this book.

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