Here. I don't know why an ASP site is reviewing a WinForms book, but they do a thorough job and, of course, I like their conclusion:
"If you are looking for a Windows Forms book, don’t let this one slip out of your hands. The book has such insight and experience included that every reader, beginner and professional, will get benefit from reading it."
Here. Rory built me an RSS feed to track book reviews on Amazon.com. And then he thanked me for letting him do it. You're welcome, Rory...
BTW, to complete your Vain Author's Toolkit, you'll need junglescan.com to track a portfolio of books' sales rank.
If those ain't web services, I don't know what are!
Here. I've noticed that lots of folks have nice things to say about "Windows Forms Programming in C#". I thank you and my publisher thanks you.
If you do post a review, you'll likely get an email from me asking you to post it on Amazon.com. That's because Amazon has noticed that it's the number of reviews of a product that determines whether something sells better than it's competitors, not the rating of the reviews (although feel free to say nice things... : ).
I'm posting this here to a) warn you that a review on my book is likely to get you an email from me and b) because Scott Galloway's Contact form is busted ("You must enter a search term"), so I needed *some* way to ask him to post his review on Amazon. Thanks!
Here. This 3-part series really belonged as a chapter in my WinForms book, but after doubling the estimated size of the book (not to mention the amount of time it was supposed to take to write it), my publisher was anxious for me to stop writing.
For those folks accustomed to the document management support in MFC or for anyone that needs to build document-centric WinForms application, I think you'll like this series.
Part 1 discusses the basics of document management in SDI WinForms apps.
Part 2 discusses MDI apps and deeper shell integration.
Part 3 wraps most everything up into a reusable component, turning the construction of document management features in .NET largely into some drag-n-drop and some property browser settings. The resultant FileDocument component is available in the latest Genghis sources (although not yet in the release zip) @ http://www.genghisgroup.com
Enjoy.
Here. Whoa. I just got a royalty check from Pearson today. Right now, it lists my advance for the WinForms book (which may turn into positive money some day), but also includes money from ATL Internals (which I'm still proud of) and Windows Telephony Programming (which I can't believe is still selling!). I won't be able to put my kids through college with the money. In fact, I can barely put them through a car wash with that money, but it's still nice. : )
Here. I'm sure it won't last, but the WinForms book has broken 1000 (908) and has an average 5-star rating with three reviews, saying very nice things like:
"This book rocks! ... All chapters are brilliant."
"The localisation and resource usage in the managed world are clearly described and you won't lose hours trying to access resources in your code anymore!"
"I stayed up all last night reading Chris' new book... I enjoyed every single page."
And, of course, the quote that makes my life complete:
"Move over Petzold, Sells is here."
