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Closed 10 years ago.
I need to teach myself Winforms and user interface programming and want a decent book that will go thoroughly into the ins and outs of how to accomplish things.
Can anyone suggest a good book?
I know C# pretty well and have messed about with Winforms in the designer before.
Thank you
I have a couple suggestions:
Programming Microsoft Windows Forms (A little dated but still worthwhile)
About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design
Charles Petzold has written really good Windows UI development books.
http://www.charlespetzold.com/books.html
If you have to program in Winforms, then "Programming Microsoft Windows Forms" is probably your best bet. But if you want to use a more current technology (WPF), then you could use "Applications = Code + Markup
A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation" from the same author
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Closed 11 years ago.
I've decided to port a little C# .NET application over to linux.
It uses .NET 4, and the author (not me) decided to use WPF because he had performance issues with Winforms.
http://www.mono-project.com/Gui_Toolkits shows quite a lot of possible options for me to use, but I'm relatively new to C# and even more so to Mono. I need it to be fast, and preferably fairly lightweight.
What would you recommend and why?
I want to know which GUI kit to go with for performance and easy of porting, given that I'm new to Mono and the original .NET app uses WPF.
Go with Gtk#. It has a nice performance and monodevelop comes with a design tool to help you draw your interface.
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Closed 11 years ago.
what is meant by Reactive Extensions(Rx). How its helps me to develop applications in windows phone mango?? Is it q framework or helper library? What is the role of this (Rx) in effective application development in WP. Mango. Can any one please suggest me some links to learn the technique,
have a look at this:
Rx-Reactive Programming for Windows Phone
and here you can find a lot of video here: Channel 9 Rx
Rx is a framework to help you programm and link async/event based behaviour inside your code using LINQ-expressions. It can really help you with all the events and async-calls you can do in WP7 and silverlight - give it a try.
I wrote a blog post about the use of Reactive Extensions. It might also be of interest.
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Closed 11 years ago.
I want to create realtime applications using ASP.Net C#
Is there any .Net books you recommend which have topics on architecting and implementing event based/message based realtime systems?
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I don't mind if it you know of a book which is based on real time web systems and is not based on .Net but created for generic purposes. I want to understand the concepts too.
I have been programming on ASP.Net for 4/5 years so anything advanced will be preferred.
for .net try This Book its good and for asp.net try Microsoft® ASP.NET Internals
I can recommend this.
Pro ASP.NET 4 in C# 2010, Fourth Edition by Matthew MacDonald.
Check the table of content yourself to confirm whether it is useful to your need.
Table Of Content
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Closed 12 years ago.
Please, anybody, can you explain what the purpose of C# language and .NET platform?
What do you think about prospects of this language?
thanks in advance.
C# is a great high level language and .NET framework is a massive expandable library. And the whole purpose is to make programmers' lives easier. High level languages let programmers to put more time on solving the main problem rather than dealing with things like portability, serialization, etc.
the purpose of C# is like the purpose of java, except it is only meant for microsoft operating systems (there is a port to linux: mono, but I think you don't have the entire library).
It can be used for web development, desktop development and windows mobile development
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Closed 10 years ago.
Coming from Access, I am totally unfamiliar with building a GUI or even a program. For C# application building, can someone point me to a primer or tutorial that will explain to me how to build a GUI, and what frameworks, widgets, Winforms, WPF, and everything else are and how they fit together to result in a usable program? Thank you.
If you want to learn WPF instead of WinForms, you can try the WPF tutorial of Christian Moser.
Codeproject has a good tutorial on making a GUI if you don't have Visual Studio.
There's a nice tutorial of David Bolton.
I would start with "Programming Microsoft Windows with C#", by Charles Petzold. The man is a legend at explaining GUI programming for Windows, and he does another great job in this C# edition. He also has a book on WPF programming if you want to take that route.
Happy Learning!