Looking for a good reference book

Bob Altman

Hi all,

A friend of mine is an experienced MFC programmer. He as recently gotten
".Net Religion", but he can't find a good reference book that presents basic
Windows Forms programming techniques that he can relate to his MFC skills.
He is currently programming in both C++/CLI and VB.Net. Any suggestions?

TIA - Bob

Sep 25 '07 #1

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Jeffrey Tan[MSFT]

Hi Bob,

The usual recommended .Net Windows Forms programming book is <Windows Forms
2.0 Programmingwrit ten by Chris Sells and <Data Binding with Windows
Forms 2.0: Programming Smart Client Data Applications with .NET written
by our Winform development manager Brian Noyes:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321267966/...owclientnet-20
http://www.amazon.com/Data-Binding-W...892X/ref=bxgy_
cc_b_text_b/002-7575117-2134409

Unfortunately, these are no C++/CLI version for these 2 books. Also, as far
as I know, there is no book relating the .Net Windows Forms with the MFC
technology. Actually, .Net Windows Forms encapsulates the Win32 user
controls, so most of the Win32 GUI message mechanism technologies apply to
the .Net Windows Forms either.

Microsoft also maintained a good site focusing on the Windows Forms and WPF
technologies, you may get a lot of good articles, tutorials in the site:
http://windowsclient.net/

Finally, based on my experience, the best way to understand the Windows
Forms internals is using the Reflector tool to examine the source code of
various .Net Winform classes and methods. This tool allows you to view the
source code in various .Net languages, including C#, VB.net, IL, C++/CLI
etc...:
http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
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Sep 25 '07 #2

Bob Altman

Thanks Jeffrey!

Sep 25 '07 #3

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