Programming Microsoft® Windows® Forms - Softcover

Charles Petzold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0735621535 ISBN 13: 9780735621534

Publisher: Microsoft Press, 2005

Synopsis

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 to:

• 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

About this title

From the Publisher:

Written by programming legend Charles Petzold, this book offers a practical, streamlined, and hands-on approach focused on expediting developer productivity with new forms and utilities for Microsoft Visual Studio® 2005 and Microsoft Visual C#® 2005.

Key Book Benefits:

· Delivers straightforward, need-to-know information about Windows Forms, with no diversions into minutiae

· Demonstrates skills that will be critical in future Windows development environments, including the Windows code-named "Longhorn" operating system and its "Avalon" graphical interface

· Features quick, hands-on programming guidance covering controls, panels, tables, and other key topics

· Written by Charles Petzold, author of the classic "Programming Windows" (Microsoft Press)

About the Author:

Charles Petzold has been writing about Windows programming for 25 years. A Windows Pioneer Award winner, Petzold is author of the classic Programming Windows, the widely acclaimed Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, Programming Windows Phone 7, and more than a dozen other books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0735621535
• ISBN 13: 9780735621534
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400