Question for everyone

[Tom Andrecht]

I'm looking for a good reference or two that will give me Windows GUI
commands and their syntaxes and/or examples in a clear easy to use layout.
Unfortunately, I live in a small town with one Waldenbooks that contains
enough space for programming books to cover the bare basics (VB for dummies,
etc.). Right now the only book I have is Petzold's Programming for Windows
5th ed. and while it is an ok book for teaching the basics of GUI
programming, I need something else to go along and fill in the gaps Petzold
has (which to me are quite a few). Can anyone recommend a book or two they
really like that is clear, understandable to beginners and experts, and easy
to use (all qualifications not neccesarily inclusive, I'm looking for
myself, not a company or group)?

Thanks

Tom

[Steve McLellan]

"Tom Andrecht" <an******@oit.edu> wrote in message
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I'm looking for a good reference or two that will give me Windows GUI
commands and their syntaxes and/or examples in a clear easy to use layout.
Unfortunately, I live in a small town with one Waldenbooks that contains
enough space for programming books to cover the bare basics (VB for dummies, etc.). Right now the only book I have is Petzold's Programming for Windows 5th ed. and while it is an ok book for teaching the basics of GUI
programming, I need something else to go along and fill in the gaps Petzold has (which to me are quite a few). Can anyone recommend a book or two they really like that is clear, understandable to beginners and experts, and easy to use (all qualifications not neccesarily inclusive, I'm looking for
myself, not a company or group)?

Hi,

The O'Reilly Windows Forms in a Nutshell is good as a reference - the first
half is about how to do stuff and the second is a reference guide to most of
the namespaces you'd use when writing a GUI, which is useful to find out
what functions you can call on stuff (which allows you to look them up on
MSDN if necessary). I've found that really good.

Steve