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When writing this book, we wanted to provide real-world Windows Forms coverage for programmers who've programmed in .NETand those who haven't. To that end, we briefly introduce core .NET topics as they come up. However, we don't pretend to cover the .NET Framework completely. It's too large a topic. Instead, when we think more information would be useful, we reference another work that provides the full details. In particular, you'll find that we've referenced Essential .NET, by Don Box, with Chris Sells, a great deal, making it a good companion to this book. In the same category, we also recommend Advanced .NET Remoting, by Ingo Rammer, and Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming, by Jeffrey Richter. (For more details on these books, see the Bibliography.)
One core .NET topic is of special importance to Windows Forms programmers, and we cover it in more detail in Appendix C: Delegates and Events. This coverage is particularly important if you're new to .NET, although we don't recommend diving into that topic until you've got a Windows Forms-specific frame of reference (which is provided about one-third of the way through Chapter 1: Hello, Windows Forms).
Also of particular importance to former (or soon-to-be former) MFC programmers, we've provided Appendix B: Moving from MFC, and Appendix F: Document Management. Although Windows Forms doesn't provide all the features of MFC, we've worked hard on the material and code samples in this book to plug most of the gaps.
One other note: Many years ago, one of the authors wrote his first five-day training course. The topic, Windows 95, included a few hours of coverage on the new controls: what they looked like, what their properties, methods, and events were, and how to program against them. Those hours seemed like days for everyone involved. The details of a particular control are interesting only when you're putting it to use, and when that time comes, the control-specific documentation and Visual Studio's IntelliSense help support do a marvelous job of giving you the information you need.
To that end, this book covers none of the standard controls completely. Instead, when a control is interesting in the context of the current topicsuch as the DataGridView control in Chapter 17: Applied Data Bindingwe cover that control appropriately. Also, to give you a list of all the components and controls and to introduce you to each one's major functionality, Appendix D: Component and Control Survey provides a list of the standard controls and components. We wouldn't think of wasting your time by attempting to be more thorough than the reference documentation that comes with the .NET Framework software development kit (SDK) and Visual Studio 2005. Instead, this book focuses on the real-world scenarios that aren't covered in detail elsewhere. Finally, to help you understand the differences between components and controls and how to build both, we've provided Chapter 9: Components and Chapter 10: Controls.
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When writing this book, we wanted to provide real-world Windows Forms coverage for programmers who've programmed in .NETand those who haven't. To that end, we briefly introduce core .NET topics as they come up. However, we don't pretend to cover the .NET Framework completely. It's too large a topic. Instead, when we think more information would be useful, we reference another work that provides the full details. In particular, you'll find that we've referenced Essential .NET, by Don Box, with Chris Sells, a great deal, making it a good companion to this book. In the same category, we also recommend Advanced .NET Remoting, by Ingo Rammer, and Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming, by Jeffrey Richter. (For more details on these books, see the Bibliography.)
One core .NET topic is of special importance to Windows Forms programmers, and we cover it in more detail in Appendix C: Delegates and Events. This coverage is particularly important if you're new to .NET, although we don't recommend diving into that topic until you've got a Windows Forms-specific frame of reference (which is provided about one-third of the way through Chapter 1: Hello, Windows Forms).
Also of particular importance to former (or soon-to-be former) MFC programmers, we've provided Appendix B: Moving from MFC, and Appendix F: Document Management. Although Windows Forms doesn't provide all the features of MFC, we've worked hard on the material and code samples in this book to plug most of the gaps.
One other note: Many years ago, one of the authors wrote his first five-day training course. The topic, Windows 95, included a few hours of coverage on the new controls: what they looked like, what their properties, methods, and events were, and how to program against them. Those hours seemed like days for everyone involved. The details of a particular control are interesting only when you're putting it to use, and when that time comes, the control-specific documentation and Visual Studio's IntelliSense help support do a marvelous job of giving you the information you need.
To that end, this book covers none of the standard controls completely. Instead, when a control is interesting in the context of the current topicsuch as the DataGridView control in Chapter 17: Applied Data Bindingwe cover that control appropriately. Also, to give you a list of all the components and controls and to introduce you to each one's major functionality, Appendix D: Component and Control Survey provides a list of the standard controls and components. We wouldn't think of wasting your time by attempting to be more thorough than the reference documentation that comes with the .NET Framework software development kit (SDK) and Visual Studio 2005. Instead, this book focuses on the real-world scenarios that aren't covered in detail elsewhere. Finally, to help you understand the differences between components and controls and how to build both, we've provided Chapter 9: Components and Chapter 10: Controls.
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