Computer Science

                        About the Authors  xxv

                        Foreword  xxvii

                        Preface  xxxi

Chapter 1     Hello, Windows Forms  1

Chapter 2     Forms  41

Chapter 3     Dialogs  99

Chapter 4     Layout  137

Chapter 5     Drawing Basics  179

Chapter 6     Drawing Text  231

Chapter 7     Advanced Drawing  265

Chapter 8     Printing  291

Chapter 9     Components  327

Chapter 10   Controls  353

Chapter 11   Design-Time Integration: The Properties Window  399

Chapter 12   Design-Time Integration: Designers and Smart Tags  453

Chapter 13   Resources  505

Chapter 14   Applications  549

Chapter 15   Settings  579

Chapter 16   Data Binding Basics  629

Chapter 17   Applied Data Binding  681

Chapter 18   Multithreaded User Interfaces  737

Chapter 19   ClickOnce Deployment  775

Appendix A    What’s New in Windows Forms 2.0  829

Appendix C    Delegates and Events  867

Appendix D    Component and Control Survey  881

Appendix E    Drag and Drop  901

Appendix F    Document Management  927

                        Bibliography  957

                        Index  961

C# Programming - Intermediate to Advanced  [PTG: AW PROFESSIONAL]   (Computer Science)

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  Windows Forms Programming in C#
  Sells
  ©2004 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 736 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321116208 | ISBN-13: 9780321116208
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  Much of the publicity around .NET has focused on using .NET to build Webbased applications. Many developers, however, are using .NET to build traditional Windows-based applications. Microsoft has provided a package called Windows Forms, or WinForms, which makes the development of these apps easier and faster than ever. Chris Sells has written the definitive book to help experienced Microsoft developers master the use of this powerful toolkit.

  Based on the experience he has gained developing with and teaching WinForms for the last two years, he goes beyond other books currently on the market. Chris has a critically acclaimed writing style that allows him to keep the material concise and easy to follow. He concentrates on what you won't find in the documentation, giving developers the information they really need.

  Reviewers are already calling this "the best WinForms book around", "the definitive book for every Windows Programmer", and "without a doubt the best and most useful C#/WinFOrms book I have ever read." We will be publishing a Visual Basic .NET version later this year.

   

View a Sample Chapter PDF:/samplechapter/0321267966.pdf

Chris Sells is a program manager for the Connected Systems Division. He’s written several books, including Programming Windows Presentation Foundation (O’Reilly), Windows Forms Programming in C# (Addison-Wesley), and ATL Internals (Addison-Wesley). In his free time, Chris hosts various conferences and makes a pest of himself on Microsoft internal product team discussion lists. More information about Chris–and his various projects–is available at www.sellsbrothers.com.

Michael Weinhardt is a programmer/writer at Microsoft, working on the Windows Client SDK. Michael has coauthored a variety of articles with Chris, contributed to the “Wonders of Windows Forms” column at MSDN Online, reviewed several Windows technology books, and generally loves communicating the whys and wherefores of technology to his peers. Michael is sure that his parents attribute his fascination in technology to their purchase of an Amiga 1000 in the mid-80s. They would be right.

“Some books are different-the content can't be Googled from the Internet, the authors have real-life experiences to share, the code can be used in real-world projects. This is one of those books.”

–Neal Myrddin, Independent Developer

“Chris and Michael nail the soul of Windows Forms 2.0. This book provides an insightful view into the design of Windows Forms and the integration of new 2.0 features. It is just as applicable for the first-time Windows Forms programmer as the seasoned line of business developer. The ‘What’s New in 2.0’ appendix is worth the price of admission alone.”

–Mike Harsh, Windows Forms Program Manager, Microsoft, Inc.

“This book takes an amazingly broad and deep technology, and breaks it into manageable pieces that are easily consumed. You cannot survive building a complex WinForms application without this book.”

–Ryan Dorrell, Chief Technology Officer, AgileThought

“Windows Forms 2.0 Programming offers something for every .NET developer. Experienced developers will appreciate the in-depth coverage of new 2.0 features, including the most comprehensive coverage of ClickOnce deployment, multithreading, and the new designer integration found anywhere. Developers new to Winforms programming will appreciate the coverage of the fundamentals all Winforms developers need to know. Whether you’re an experienced WinForms developer or just beginning, you need this book.” 

–Fritz Onion, cofounder of Pluralsight, author of Essential ASP.NET, and ASP.NET MVP

“I don’t want just a description of the WinForms widgets. I can get that online or from other books. What I want is a roadmap for pitfalls to avoid, and innovative solutions for common problems. That is where this book shines. All of us who found the first edition of this book to be an indispensible part of our reference library will appreciate this updated edition that describes WinForms 2.0.”

–Johan Ericsson, Software Engineer, Agilent Technologies

“The books Chris Sells writes are always insightful and this newest addition is no different. This book in particular is for those who want to understand not just the flashy surface of Windows Forms 2.0, but also how it fits into the .NET environment. Readers will have this book at their desks, not stuck on their shelves, for quite a long time.”

–Yoshimatsu Fumiaki, Software Engineer based in Tokyo Japan

“Chris and Mike have done an excellent job presenting the information you need to be successful with Windows Forms.”

–Jessica Fosler, Dev Tech Lead, Microsoft

“This book is the ‘must have’ teaching and reference book for WinForms 2.0.”

–Jim Rittenhouse, Senior Software Engineer, Siemens

Windows Forms 2.0 Programming is the successor to the highly praised Windows Forms Programming in C#. This edition has been significantly updated to amalgamate the sheer mass of new and improved support that is encompassed by Windows Forms 2.0, the .NET Framework 2.0, and Visual Studio 2005. This is the one book developers need in order to learn how to build and deploy leading-edge Windows Forms 2.0 applications.

Readers will gain a deep understanding from Sells and Weinhardt’s practical, well-balanced approach to the subject and clear code samples.

  •  Windows Forms 2.0 fundamentals, including forms, dialogs, data validation, help, controls, components, and rendering

  •  Static and dynamic layout, snap lines, HTML-style flow and table layout, automatic resizing, and automatic cross-DPI scaling

  •  Office 2003-style tool strip control coverage, including dynamic layout and custom rendering

  •  Design-time integration with the Visual Studio 2005 Properties Window and Smart Tags

  •  Resource management, strongly typed resources, and internationalization considerations

  •  Strongly typed application and user settings

  •  SDI, MDI, Single Instancing, Multiple-Instance SDI, Single-Instance MDI, database-centric, and document-centric applications

  •  Databinding data-source management, drag-and-drop databinding, the BindingSource, the BindingNavigator, and applied databinding

  •  Events, delegates, multithreaded UIs, long-running operations, simplified multithreading with the BackgroundWorker, and asynchronous web service calls

  •  ClickOnce application development publishing, shell integration, and partial trust security

  •  Best practices for developers transitioning from Windows Forms 1.0 and MFC

This title is a member of the The Microsoft .NET Development Series Series, which also contains the titles below . You can also visit the Microsoft .NET Development Series Series page.

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  .NET Class Libraries Reference Poster
  Abrams
  ©2004 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 2 pp | Instock
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  .NET Compact Framework Programming with C#
  Yao & Durant
  ©2004 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 1424 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321174038 | ISBN-13: 9780321174031
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  This book explores the differences between the standard framework and the CF, shows how to use the Win32 API, and explains specialized tools for particular machines and functions. It is a practical, code-rich tutorial for experienced students wishing to transfer their skills to smart devices. Covers topics not found in other books, such as controls, data handling, graphics, and ActiveSync.

• 
  .NET Compact Framework Programming with Visual Basic .NET
  Yao & Durant
  ©2004 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 1424 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321174046 | ISBN-13: 9780321174048
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  This book explores the differences between the standard framework and the CF, shows how to use the Win32 API, and explains specialized tools for particular machines and functions. It is a practical, code-rich tutorial for experienced students wishing to transfer their skills to smart devices. Covers topics not found in other books, such as controls, data handling, graphics, and ActiveSync.

• 
  .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services Programming, The
  Kaplan & Dunn
  ©2006 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 512 pp | Out of Stock
  ISBN-10: 0321350170 | ISBN-13: 9780321350176
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  .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security, The
  Brown
  ©2005 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 408 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321228359 | ISBN-13: 9780321228352
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  Making applications secure has been one of the biggest priorities of Microsoft

  developers. However, very few books have been written for developers; most

  security books are aimed at administrators. Surprisingly enough given this focus

  on security there is not yet a leading book on .NET security. Keith Brown is

  one of the most respected names in the field, and has written the first book to

  explain how to make Windows Server 2003 applications secure using .NET.

  Furthermore, it is written in the format which has proven so successful for

  Scott Meyers and others: it is made up of 75 brief items which build on the

  previous ones, giving developers of all levels a complete, deep understanding of

  what tools are available, and how to use them to create secure applications for

  Windows.

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  .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 1: Base Class Library and Extended Numerics Library
  Abrams
  ©2004 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Cloth; 560 pp | Out of Stock
  ISBN-10: 0321154894 | ISBN-13: 9780321154897
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  .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 2: Networking Library, Reflection Library, and XML Library
  Abrams & Abrams
  ©2006 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Cloth Bound w/CD-ROM; 512 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321194454 | ISBN-13: 9780321194459
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  .NET Internationalization: The Developer's Guide to Building Global Windows and Web Applications
  Smith-Ferrier
  ©2007 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 672 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321341384 | ISBN-13: 9780321341389
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  ADO.NET and System.Xml v. 2.0--The Beta Version, 2/E
  Homer, Sussman & Fussell
  ©2005 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 560 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321247124 | ISBN-13: 9780321247124
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  ADO.NET is Microsoft's toolset for working with data in any form. Sooner or later just about all Microsoft developers will need to come to grips with it. The first rev has not been as quickly adopted as some other areas of .NET, such as ASP.NET. However, Microsoft has made many substantial changes to version 2.0, to make it both more powerful and easier to use. This should help accelerate the use of ADO.NET, and the need for this book. We also expect this edition to sell much better than the previous edition, A First Look at ADO.NET and System.Xml v. 2.0 , 0321228391, because the previous book was released on an alpha version of the software with only limited distribution. This edition will be released day and date with the release of the general public beta, creating a much larger audience. The previous edition received glowing reviews; it created a new standard for beta books. This one should receive just as good if not better reviews, and will definitely receive more reviews as a result of the beta release. There may be one or two other books released on the beta, but none of them will have received the support from the ADO.NET team at Microsoft. And none of them will receive the marketing support that this one will receive from the ADO.NET team.

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  Advanced .NET Debugging, Safari
  Hewardt
  ©2010 | Addison-Wesley Professional | On-line Supplement; 552 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321584090 | ISBN-13: 9780321584090
  Online purchase price: $49.99Students can purchase immediate access at http://safari.informit.com.
  

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  ASP.NET 2.0 Illustrated
  Homer & Sussman
  ©2006 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 800 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321418344 | ISBN-13: 9780321418340
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  ASP.NET 2.0 Illustrated teaches students exactly what they need to know to create exciting Web sites and applications quickly and easily using ASP.NET 2.0. Renowned authors, developers, and conference speakers Alex Homer and Dave Sussman have written a concise, detailed exploration of the “must learn” features of ASP.NET 2.0. The book’s many original examples, fully updated for the release version of ASP.NET 2.0, are all downloadable from the authors’ Web site, and many can be run live online. Readers will come away from this book knowing exactly how to build secure, efficient, visually consistent, easy-to-navigate, data-driven Web sites with ASP.NET 2.0.

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  C# Programming Language, The, 2/E
  Hejlsberg, Wiltamuth & Golde
  ©2006 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Cloth; 720 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321334434 | ISBN-13: 9780321334435
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  Common Language Infrastructure Annotated Standard, The
  Miller & Ragsdale
  ©2004 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 928 pp | Available on Demand   What's this?
  ISBN-10: 0321154932 | ISBN-13: 9780321154934
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  The Common Language Infrastructure Annotated Standard is the definitive guide to understanding the annotated specification for the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) standard. With annotations and code samples from both the ECMA standards committee and the Microsoft Common Language Runtime (CLR) team, this book goes beyond the online documentation to clarify and amplify the original standard and describe its implementation.

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  Concurrent Programming on Windows
  Duffy
  ©2009 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 1008 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 032143482X | ISBN-13: 9780321434821
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  Data Binding with Windows Forms 2.0: Programming Smart Client Data Applications with .NET
  Noyes
  ©2006 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 736 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 032126892X | ISBN-13: 9780321268921
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  Designing Forms for Microsoft Office InfoPath and Forms Services 2007
  Roberts & Green
  ©2007 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 1296 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321410599 | ISBN-13: 9780321410597
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  Developer's Guide to SQL Server 2005, A
  Beauchemin & Sullivan
  ©2006 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 1088 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321382188 | ISBN-13: 9780321382184
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  Domain-Specific Development with Visual Studio DSL Tools
  Cook, Jones, Kent & Wills
  ©2007 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 576 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321398203 | ISBN-13: 9780321398208
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  Effective REST Services via .NET: For .NET Framework 3.5
  Scribner & Seely
  ©2009 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 480 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321613252 | ISBN-13: 9780321613257
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  Effective REST Services via .NET: For .NET Framework 3.5, Safari
  Scribner & Seely
  ©2009 | Addison-Wesley Professional | On-line Supplement; 480 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321612361 | ISBN-13: 9780321612366
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  Enterprise Services with the .NET Framework: Developing Distributed Business Solutions with .NET Enterprise Services
  Nagel
  ©2005 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 576 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 032124673X | ISBN-13: 9780321246738
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  .NET Enterprise Services is a managed class in COM+ that allows developers

  to build scalable applications quickly and easily, by automated business

  solutions, rather than writing code from scratch. .NET Enterprise Services are

  delivered as a part of the Windows 2003 operating system, and also work with

  Web Services. While Microsoft is currently encouraging developers to build

  distributed applications using Enterprise Services, there is little information

  available.

  Enterprise Services with the .NET Framework responds to the needs of all

  developers looking to build and automate business solutions using the .NET

  Framework. It is the only book that clearly explains what .NET Enterprise

  Services are and how to use them to build effective distributed business

  applications. It presents the big picture of .NET Enterprise Services using clear

  explanations and practical examples. It discusses the architecture using

  straightforward language and demonstrates how to use all of the Enterprise

  Services technologies to develop scalable distributed applications.

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  Essential ASP.NET 2.0, 2/E
  Onion & Brown
  ©2007 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 384 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321237706 | ISBN-13: 9780321237705
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  Essential ASP.NET 2.0  covers all a student needs to know to build robust, well-designed Web applications with ASP.NET 2.0, Visual Studio 2005, and version 2.0 of the .NET Framework. ASP.NET MVP Fritz Onion and Developer Security MVP Keith Brown draw on their unparalleled experience working with ASP.NET 2.0 and teaching it to professional developers. From data binding to security, UIs to performance, they demystify ASP.NET 2.0's most difficult areas, and introduce little-known techniques for leveraging it to the fullest.

  The perfect companion to his previous classic, Essential ASP.NET with Examples in C#, Essential ASP.NET 2.0 offers hundreds of new C# examples that illuminate today's best Web development practices. (Both C# and VB 2005 versions of all code examples can be downloaded from the companion Web site.)

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  Essential C# 2.0
  Michaelis
  ©2006 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 768 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321150775 | ISBN-13: 9780321150776
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  Essential C# 3.0: For .NET Framework 3.5, Safari, 2/E
  Michaelis
  ©2009 | Addison-Wesley Professional | On-line Supplement; 880 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321580559 | ISBN-13: 9780321580559
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• 
  Essential LINQ
  Calvert & Kulkarni
  ©2009 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 600 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321564162 | ISBN-13: 9780321564160
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  Essential LINQ, Safari
  Calvert & Kulkarni
  ©2009 | Addison-Wesley Professional | On-line Supplement; 600 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 032160475X | ISBN-13: 9780321604750
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  Essential Silverlight 3
  Michail
  ©2010 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 336 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321554167 | ISBN-13: 9780321554161
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  Essential Silverlight 3, Safari
  Michail
  ©2010 | Addison-Wesley Professional | On-line Supplement; 336 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 032160198X | ISBN-13: 9780321601988
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  Essential Windows Communication Foundation (WCF): For .NET Framework 3.5
  Resnick, Crane & Bowen
  ©2008 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 608 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321440064 | ISBN-13: 9780321440068
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  Essential Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
  Anderson
  ©2007 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 512 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321374479 | ISBN-13: 9780321374479
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  Essential Windows Workflow Foundation
  Shukla & Schmidt
  ©2007 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 480 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321399838 | ISBN-13: 9780321399830
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  First Look at SQL Server 2005 for Developers, A
  Beauchemin, Berglund & Sullivan
  ©2004 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 736 pp | Out of Stock
  ISBN-10: 0321180593 | ISBN-13: 9780321180599
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  Books on beta releases of important software have sold extremely well, even

  though few contain much solid or original content. Microsoft approached AW,

  and its authors, to produce a book on the beta release of the next version of

  SQL Server, codenamed Yukon. To write the book, Microsoft is providing

  early access to the SQL Server team, ensuring that this book is not a rehash of

  readily available white papers and Web articles, but a resource of valuable,

  useful information. Yukon will be the most significant update in years, and has

  received tremedous advance buzz. The public beta will be made available in the

  first half of this year, coinciding with the release of our title. There may be

  other books publishing on the beta, but none will have had the Microsoft

  support and endorsement that our book has received. The authors will update

  the book's web site as the beta software develops, and will update the book for

  the final software release. This title will set a new standard for "beta" books.

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  Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries
  Cwalina & Abrams
  ©2006 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Hardcover with DVD; 384 pp | Out of Stock
  ISBN-10: 0321246756 | ISBN-13: 9780321246752
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  In the past, reusable API design was the domain of only a handful of large

  software vendors. There has been a steady increase in interest in API design

  after the invention and widespread adoption of reusable component

  technologies: COM, CORBA, and recently .NET. Today, most new software

  projects contain some reusable APIs. Microsoft is giving the message that

  careful design of public APIs is crucial to realizing the full potential of software

  reuse. These .NET Framework Design Guidelines were created in the early

  days of the development of .NET. They started as a small set of naming and

  design conventions but have been enhanced, scrutinized, and refined to a point

  where they are generally considered the canonical way to design frameworks at

  Microsoft. They carry the experience and cumulative wisdom of thousands of

  developer hours over three versions of .NET. The authors avoid having the

  text based purely on some idealistic design philosophies, and have made it an

  intensely pragmatic book. The book contains many annotations that explain

  tradeoffs, history, amplify or provide critiquing views on the guidelines. The

  book is written to version 2.0 of .NET, and will be the basis for one of the preconference

  sessions for PDC in September, where the book will be launched.

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  Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries, 2/E
  Cwalina & Abrams
  ©2009 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Hardcover with DVD; 480 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321545613 | ISBN-13: 9780321545619
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  Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries, Safari
  Cwalina & Abrams
  ©2006 | Addison-Wesley Professional | On-line Supplement; 384 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321578813 | ISBN-13: 9780321578815
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  Graphics Programming with GDI+
  Chand
  ©2004 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 784 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321160770 | ISBN-13: 9780321160775
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  Graphics Programming in GDI+ is an in-depth treatment on writing effective graphics applications for the .NET Framework. The book begins with an introduction to GDI+ and the basics of graphics programming in Windows. The core of the book is a hands-on guide to practical topics, including how to use Windows Forms and optimize GDI+ performance. Chapters demonstrate how to develop real-world tools such as GDI+Painter, GDI+Editor, ImageViewer, and ImageAnimator. The author provides extensive reusable sample code in C# throughout, and complete downloadable source code in C# and Visual Basic .NET is available online, as are color versions of screen shots from the book.

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  Programming .NET Compact Framework 3.5, 2/E
  Yao & Durant
  ©2010 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 744 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321573587 | ISBN-13: 9780321573582
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  Programming .NET Compact Framework 3.5, Safari, 2/E
  Yao & Durant
  ©2010 | Addison-Wesley Professional | On-line Supplement; 744 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321606531 | ISBN-13: 9780321606532
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  Programming in the .NET Environment
  Watkins, Hammond & Abrams
  ©2003 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 560 pp | Available on Demand   What's this?
  ISBN-10: 0201770180 | ISBN-13: 9780201770186
  Suggested retail price: $49.99  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $25.49  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  An authoritative guide for students that need to develop software that takes full advantage of the .NET Framework. This book shows students how to produce generic frameworks, libraries, classes, and tools to be used in the .NET Framework. It also shows how to use the right language to develop parts of a system and then incorporate these parts together at runtime regardless of language differences. The book concludes with a series of appendices.

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  Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System
  Guckenheimer & Perez
  ©2006 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 304 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321278720 | ISBN-13: 9780321278722
  Suggested retail price: $49.99  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $31.49  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System is written for a software team that is considering running a software project using Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). It is about the “why” of VSTS: its guiding ideas, why they are presented in certain ways, and how they fit into the process of managing the software lifecycle. This book is the next best thing to having an onsite coach who can lead the team through a consistent set of processes. It is a framework for thinking about software projects in a way that can be directly tooled by VSTS. It presents essential theory and practical examples to describe a realistic process for IT projects. This is a book that any team using or considering VSTS should read.

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  The C# Programming Language, 3/E
  Hejlsberg, Torgersen, Wiltamuth & Golde
  ©2009 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 784 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321562992 | ISBN-13: 9780321562999
  Suggested retail price: $44.99  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $22.94  (What's this?)

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  The C# Programming Language, Safari, 3/E
  Hejlsberg, Torgersen, Wiltamuth & Golde
  ©2009 | Addison-Wesley Professional | On-line Supplement; 784 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321592271 | ISBN-13: 9780321592279
  Online purchase price: $44.99Students can purchase immediate access at http://safari.informit.com.
  

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  Visual Basic .NET Programming Language, The
  Vick
  ©2004 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 432 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321169514 | ISBN-13: 9780321169518
  Suggested retail price: $49.99  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $25.49  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  This book describes the Visual Basic .NET programming language, starting with the simplest concepts first and gradually working up to the most advanced concepts. In this way it can be used both as a guide to the language for people new to VB .NET, as well as a reference for experienced VB .NET developers. While there are many books on the market on Visual Basic .NET, there are very few references, and no others from any core member of the Visual Basic development team. The tech reviewers have praised the clear writing style, the concise yet thorough coverage, the usefulness of the examples, and the effectiveness of the organization. Reviewers have also noted many topics not covered in other books, or not covered nearly as well, including events, delegates, versioning, obsoleting code, and using shadowing. Data collected by Microsoft indicate that the long-awaited move from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic .NET should be in full swing as this book releases. A June 2003 survey conducte by Readex for SD Times shows usage of Visual Basic .NET among professional developers moving from 32% currently to 46% by June of 2004, a huge jump.The Visual Basic .NET Programming Language is the one book that all VB professionals will need to have on their desk.

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  Visual Studio Tools for Office 2007: VSTO for Excel, Word, and Outlook
  Carter & Lippert
  ©2009 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 1120 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321533216 | ISBN-13: 9780321533210
  Suggested retail price: $54.99  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $34.64  (What's this?)

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  Visual Studio Tools for Office 2007: VSTO for Excel, Word, and Outlook, Safari
  Carter & Lippert
  ©2009 | Addison-Wesley Professional | On-line Supplement; 1120 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 032157785X | ISBN-13: 9780321577856
  Online purchase price: $54.99Students can purchase immediate access at http://www.safari.informit.com.
  

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  Visual Studio Tools for Office: Using C# with Excel, Word, Outlook, and InfoPath
  Carter & Lippert
  ©2006 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 1008 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321334884 | ISBN-13: 9780321334886
  Suggested retail price: $59.99  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $30.59  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) was released in August of 2003. It

  brought the power of .NET to developing Word and Excel applications. While

  powerful, it was also lacking in some key features, and difficult to use. VSTO

  2005 will be released as part of the Whidbey release. It will be incorporated in

  the more advanced versions of Visual Studio .NET 2005, and will also be

  available as a stand-alone product. It has corrected many of the major problems

  with the first version, and is poised to experience a rapid growth in usage.

  Coverage has been expanded to include Outlook and InfoPath in addition to

  Word and Excel. This book is not only written by key members of the team

  that developed VSTO 2005, but it will also be the first book available on

  VSTO. The authors provide both an introduction to VSTO as well as a tutorial

  for using it, including lots of practical examples, and a refreshing honesty about

  both the strengths and pitfalls of the technology. This book will be a must-have

  for all the developers considering VSTO.

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  Windows Forms 2.0 Programming, 2/E
  Sells & Weinhardt
  ©2006 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 1296 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321267966 | ISBN-13: 9780321267962
  Suggested retail price: $64.99  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $33.14  (What's this?)

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  Windows Forms Programming in C#
  Sells
  ©2004 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 736 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321116208 | ISBN-13: 9780321116208
  Suggested retail price: $59.99  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $30.59  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  Much of the publicity around .NET has focused on using .NET to build Webbased applications. Many developers, however, are using .NET to build traditional Windows-based applications. Microsoft has provided a package called Windows Forms, or WinForms, which makes the development of these apps easier and faster than ever. Chris Sells has written the definitive book to help experienced Microsoft developers master the use of this powerful toolkit.

  Based on the experience he has gained developing with and teaching WinForms for the last two years, he goes beyond other books currently on the market. Chris has a critically acclaimed writing style that allows him to keep the material concise and easy to follow. He concentrates on what you won't find in the documentation, giving developers the information they really need.

  Reviewers are already calling this "the best WinForms book around", "the definitive book for every Windows Programmer", and "without a doubt the best and most useful C#/WinFOrms book I have ever read." We will be publishing a Visual Basic .NET version later this year.

   

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  Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET
  Sells & Ghetland
  ©2004 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 736 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321125193 | ISBN-13: 9780321125194
  Suggested retail price: $59.99  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $30.59  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  Much of the publicity around .NET has focused on using .NET to build Webbased

  applications and Web services. Many developers, however, are using

  .NET to build traditional Windows-based applications. Microsoft has provided

  a package called Windows Forms, or WinForms, which makes the

  development of these apps easier and faster than ever. Chris Sells has written

  the definitive book to help experienced Microsoft developers master the use of

  this powerful toolkit. Based on the experience he has gained developing with

  and teaching WinForms for the last two year, he goes beyond other books

  currently on the market. Chris has a critically acclaimed writing style that allows

  him to keep the material concise and easy to follow. He concentrates on what

  you won't find in the documentation, giving developers the information they

  really need. While this book is basically similar to his book on WinForms for

  C# developers, Chris has brought in Visual Basic .NET expert Justin Gehtland

  to make sure that the style and content of this version are fully optimized for

  the needs and concerns of Visual Basic coders.

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