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Charles Petzold is
the greatest technical writer I have ever had the pleasure of reading.
Every lesson, every example, is done with the skill and technique of someone
who loves what they do, and is very good at it. Petzold has been writing
about programming since 1986, and it shows. Unlike many other windows
programming books, Petzold avoids using programming constructs like MFC and
ATL. He also avoids using the Visual Studio IDE in favor of learning
how to do it by hand. It is this sort of experience that makes a great
programmer and differentiates between one who simply knows how to use a
tool, and one who knows how the tool works.
All samples can be compiled with the free command line compiler that
Microsoft provides.
.NET is Petzold's first excursion into anything higher level than the
Win32 API, and given his previous general disdain for monolithic high-level
wrapper classes, this really says something about the quality of the .NET
framework.
If you want to learn about programming Windows Forms with .NET and C#,
this is the only book you will need.
Rating 9/10 stars
Buy it at Amazon.com
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