.NET 2.0 Books for winforms

[Mark]

We've built a ton of ASP.NET applications, and now have a need to build
several WinForm applications. We're looking for 2.0 books. I found the two
below - any other recommendations? Thanks in advance.

-Mark

Pro .NET 2.0 Windows Forms and Custom Controls in C#
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590594398/

Data Binding with Windows Forms 2.0 : Programming Smart Client Data
Applications with .NET (Microsoft Net Development Series) (Paperback)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/032126892X/

 

[Christoph Nahr]

Charles Petzold has recently published "Programming Windows Forms
2005" which is essentially an addendum to his earlier standard work,
"Programming Microsoft Windows with C#" (which actually covers
WinForms and System.Drawing, _not_ the C# language).

You really need to get both books if you don't have the earlier one
since much basic information isn't repeated in the recent book.

 

[Otis Mukinfus]

Charles Petzold has recently published "Programming Windows Forms
2005" which is essentially an addendum to his earlier standard work,
"Programming Microsoft Windows with C#" (which actually covers
WinForms and System.Drawing, _not_ the C# language).

You really need to get both books if you don't have the earlier one
since much basic information isn't repeated in the recent book.

The latest book is worth the cost. With it I was able to work out
putting a datetime picker in the gridview. There are other good
sections also.

Otis Mukinfus
http://www.otismukinfus.com
http://www.tomchilders.com

 

[Russell Mangel]

I can comment on the second book authored by "Brian Noyes".

Brian's book is excellant, I highly recommend buying it if you are doing
Windows Forms Binding. This book is a good choice if you have some
experience in data binding if you are a beginner to data-binding you still
should buy it as you will need this book later on as your skills develop.

I under-estimated the learning curve for data-binding in .NET 2.0. As far as
I know, this is the only book on the market that directly target's data
binding.

In fact, I was so impressed with Brian, that I hired him (for design and
guidelines), to help me with our company's application.

You will be delighted with this book.

Also.
Brian Noyes is also an expert on Click-Once deployment's for Windows Forms.
He is currently writing a book which will be published later this year, I
think around May 2006. I also hired him to help us deploy two Windows Forms
Application's in our company. He's a dead-ringer.

Brian Noyes and Juval Lowy, have written many articles for Microsoft, these
guys really know there stuff.
http://www.idesign.net/idesign/DesktopDefault.aspx

Juval Lowry is the Microsoft's Regional Director for Silicon Valley. So any
of his books are awesome.

Russell Mangel
Las Vegas, NV