User Interfaces in C#—Windows Forms and Custom Controls

Matthew MacDonald

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About the Author

Matthew MacDonald is an author, educator, and MCSD developer. He''''''''s a regular contributor to programming journals, such as Inside Visual Basic and C# Today, and the author of several books about .NET programming, including The Book of VB .NET (No Starch) and ASP.NET: The Complete Reference (Osborne McGraw-Hill). In a dimly remembered past life he studied English literature and theoretical physics.

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Gordon Henshaw is an instructor, consultant, developer, and engineer with over 29 years of information systems experience. A Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA), Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and Certified Technical Trainer (CTT), Gordon has specialized in Microsoft technologies and software, including Microsoft''''''''s established technologies and also the new technologies such as NET Framework (CLR), VB. NET, C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, SOAP, Web Services, and XML.