
A fast-paced example-driven tutorial to building custom controls using Visual C# 2005 Express Edition and .NET 2.0
Adam Ward, Dragos Brezoi, Iulian Serban, Tiberiu Radu
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Overview of GDI+ Application Custom Controls with Visual C# 2005
- Learn about custom controls and the GDI+
- Walks through great examples like PieChart control
- Customize and develop your own controls
[ Detailed Information ]
Language : EnglishPaperback : 276 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : July 2006
ISBN : 1904811604
ISBN 13 : 978-1-904811-60-2
Author(s) : Adam Ward, Dragos Brezoi, Iulian Serban, Tiberiu Radu
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Microsoft Other, Enterprise, Microsoft
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If you want to build custom controls with C# but you don't know where to start, or you are intimidated by the huge amount of information that needs to be absorbed, then this book is for you. This friendly tutorial is based on numerous examples with real-world applicability, and includes a case study featuring the development of a fully functional PieChart control.
Showing you how to use the free Visual C# 2005 Express Edition environment to develop your controls, GDI+ Custom Controls with Visual C# 2005 will teach you how to create professional, reusable custom controls for your desktop applications in no time.
What you will learn from this book :
- Understand the basics of custom controls
- Use GDI+ to draw your own controls
- Implement double buffering to speed up your forms
- Add printing functionality to your custom controls
- Handle the mouse events to improve the user experience
- Offer design-time support for programmers using your control
- Design intuitive interfaces for your users
Approach
Throughout the book the emphasis is on using examples to illustrate concepts and techniques. Code is shown in detail, and explained thoroughly. The examples themselves are intended to be both intructional and useful in their own right.
Who this book is written for
This book has been written with the intermediate C# developer in mind. Assuming a working knowledge of C#, the book teaches you how to implement custom controls using Visual C# 2005 Express Edition and all other versions of Visual C#, and GDI+ with .NET 2.0

A fast-paced example-driven tutorial to building custom controls using Visual C# 2005 Express Edition and .NET 2.0
Adam Ward, Dragos Brezoi, Iulian Serban, Tiberiu Radu
Overview of GDI+ Application Custom Controls with Visual C# 2005
- Learn about custom controls and the GDI+
- Walks through great examples like PieChart control
- Customize and develop your own controls
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[ Detailed Information ]
Language : EnglishPaperback : 276 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : July 2006
ISBN : 1904811604
ISBN 13 : 978-1-904811-60-2
Author(s) : Adam Ward, Dragos Brezoi, Iulian Serban, Tiberiu Radu
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Microsoft Other, Enterprise, Microsoft
[ Book Links ]
[ In Detail ]
|
If you want to build custom controls with C# but you don't know where to start, or you are intimidated by the huge amount of information that needs to be absorbed, then this book is for you. This friendly tutorial is based on numerous examples with real-world applicability, and includes a case study featuring the development of a fully functional PieChart control.
Showing you how to use the free Visual C# 2005 Express Edition environment to develop your controls, GDI+ Custom Controls with Visual C# 2005 will teach you how to create professional, reusable custom controls for your desktop applications in no time.
What you will learn from this book :
- Understand the basics of custom controls
- Use GDI+ to draw your own controls
- Implement double buffering to speed up your forms
- Add printing functionality to your custom controls
- Handle the mouse events to improve the user experience
- Offer design-time support for programmers using your control
- Design intuitive interfaces for your users
Approach
Throughout the book the emphasis is on using examples to illustrate concepts and techniques. Code is shown in detail, and explained thoroughly. The examples themselves are intended to be both intructional and useful in their own right.
Who this book is written for
This book has been written with the intermediate C# developer in mind. Assuming a working knowledge of C#, the book teaches you how to implement custom controls using Visual C# 2005 Express Edition and all other versions of Visual C#, and GDI+ with .NET 2.0