NET Windows Forms in a Nutshell 
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Author Ian Griffiths, Matthew Adams
Publisher O'Reilly & Associates
Length 936 pages
vbRad Rating: 4 fingers up. (4 out of 5)
Reviewed by Robert Gelb

This book is thicker than your average O'Reilly title. The topic at hand really forces that. The book provides a deep look into inner workings of windows forms package. Authors divided the text into two logical parts: Intro to Windows Forms and Reference (technically there is also a fairly informative Appendix).

Think of the first part as a regular tutorial-style book that explores various topics such as forms, how to build controls, menus, toolbars, layout, localization, inheritance, visual inheritance, extenders, data binding, etc…

The second part is essentially a desktop reference as advertised. It is pretty useful as it is. But it has a cool feature where the entire reference is placed on the CD. You can the install the reference onto your PC and it integrates with the existing VS.NET help. So as you type and dynamic help display results, the O'Reilly results will be there too. I think that is cool.

Overall, if you are doing desktop apps, this book will provide you an arm-chair helper well worth the money.


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