Overview
- Shows how to integrate "intelligence" into your user interfaces with embedded help and user agents
- Describes the architecture of a well-planned user interface
- Teaches GDI+ essentials like hit testing, irregularly shaped forms, owner-drawn menus, and animated controls
- Shows how to create elegant custom controls tailored to your data and application logic
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
User Interfaces in C#: Windows Forms and Custom Controls goes beyond simply covering the Windows Forms namespaces by combining a careful treatment of the API with a detailed discussion of good user-interface design principles. The combination will show you how to create the next generation of software applications using the .NET Framework. After reading User Interfaces in C#: Windows Forms and Custom Controls, you'll know how to design state-of-the-art application interfaces, as well as how to extend .NET controls, create data-binding strategies, program graphics, and much more.
This book contains the following:
Although this book isn't a reference, it does contain detailed discussions about every user interface element you'll use on a regular basis. But you won't just learn how to use .NET controlsyou'll learn how and why to extend them, with owner-drawn menus, irregularly shaped forms, and custom controls tailored for specific types of data. As a developer, you need to know more than how to add a control to a window. You also need to know how to create an entire use interface framework that's scalable, flexible, and reusable.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This book goes beyond simply covering the Windows Forms namespaces – it also provides a careful treatment of the API and a discussion of good user interface design principles. … After reading this book, you will know how to design state-of-the-art application interfaces … and more. … the book does contain detailed discussions about every well-known user interface element. … tips are very useful to novice C# or .Net users. I recommend this book to anyone serious about building interfaces using the .Net framework." (Adrian Rossi, Computer Bulletin, November, 2003)
"This book contains the following: An overview of how to design elegant user interfaces the average user can understand. A comprehensive examination of the user interface controls and classes in .NET. Best practices and design tips for coding user interfaces and integrating help." (Programmers Heaven, November, 2002)
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: User Interfaces in C#
Book Subtitle: Windows Forms and Custom Controls
Authors: Matthew MacDonald
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0837-2
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Matthew MacDonald 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-59059-045-4Published: 04 October 2002
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-0837-2Published: 01 January 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 624
Number of Illustrations: 352 b/w illustrations
Topics: Microsoft and .NET, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems