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Framework Design Guidelines : Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (Microsoft Net Development Series)

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Programming Microsoft ADO.NET 2.0 Applications: Advanced Topics

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Data Binding with Windows Forms 2.0 : Programming Smart Client Data Applications with .NET (Microsoft Net Development Series)

Format: Paperback
Author: Brian Noyes
ReleaseDate: 12 January, 2006
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Rating:

Indispensable
Truly impressive and extremely well written. If you are serious about using data with Windows forms, this book is simply indispensable.

Good Book, but Mistitled
NET 2. This book is an excellent introduction to Windows Forms in .0, but is really not titled correctly. In particular, the subtitle "Programming Smart Client Data Applications with . NET" is blatantly misleading considering:

1. Offline data access (or disconnected mode usage), by definition a core component of smart clients, is covered for a total of 3 sentences in this book.

2. Other relevant smart client topics, such as ClickOnce deployment, are either addressed in the single "What is a smart client?" section (one page!) or ignored altogether.

I'm giving this book 4 stars because it really is a great book for those venturing into building Windows Forms 2. 0 applications (also touching relevant topics like ASP. NET, WinFX and XAML), but the title should have ignored any reference to smart clients altogether. If you're a developer looking for a great resource for building apps in VS. NET 2005, this is the book for you. If you're looking for a smart client resource like I was, this is not it.

A must-have!
Afterall, who would think that a complete book dedicated to data binding even exists? After reading through this book I am extremely happy I typed in the wrong search bar!

This book is titled Data Binding with Windows Forms 2. Well, I was looking for some advanced databinding techniques when I accidently typed "data binding" in Amazons search bar rather then Googles.0, but there more then meets the eye with this exceptional title. As another reviewer pointed out, one of the greatest aspects of this book is how the author teaches you how to develop data bound applications the right way. You learn about how typed data sets are more intuitive then non-typed data sets. You learn how to seperate your data access logic into a seperate class library so you can gain flexibilty and better code reuse. By reading this book you definitely get a feeling that this guy loves programming and he knows how to code really well. I was getting really tired of reading books that mesh all of the logic (business, data access, presentation) into one mess of a program. Because most books do this, I always had a gap in my software development knowledge that I didn't quite know how to fill, at least not in the most intuitive ways. This book showed me how to develop smart client applications the right way. I am extremely happy I picked this title up, you will be too!.