introduce me a book about designing for?

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I use vs 2010 to design .NET form application. in form designing I have a lot of question. for example: in runtime, changing the location of button and size of gridview automatically when window maximized.
Please suggest me some good book? I bought some book but they don't cover designing?

Posted 11-Feb-11 6:25am

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Nish Nishant · Answer 1 · 2011-02-11T06:28:00

Solution 1

This one is a best seller:

http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Forms-Programming-Microsoft-Development/dp/0321267966[^]

It's for .NET 2.0 though (although there may be a more recent edition out that covers newer versions, I am not sure of that).

Posted 11-Feb-11 6:28am

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#realJSOP · Answer 2 · 2011-02-11T06:43:00

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We could recommend a thousand books, and none of them would be sufficient.

The ONLY way to gain the knowledge you seek is to sit down, start writing code, and make mistakes along the way. It's called "experience", and books simply can't teach that.

The best thing to do is to pick a program that already exists, and write your own program that looks/functions exactly the same way. Don't be too ambitious at first, and pick relatively simple applications. Don't be afraid to go off on some tangent in an effort to clarify to yourself why something works the way it does, or to perform "what-if" coding.

In the end, your own expertise will be limited to your desire to do the work necessary to gain that expertise. If you have no drive or initiative, you're already doomed to mediocrity before to even start.

Posted 11-Feb-11 6:43am

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Nish Nishant 11-Feb-11 12:44pm

I thought he was specifically asking about the Winforms designer and not about programming design in general!

#realJSOP 11-Feb-11 13:40pm

Hmmm, you could be right. :)

Nish Nishant 12-Feb-11 10:26am

You got a 1 but it's not the OP's since it seems to be a Platinum 1. Assuming the 5 was from SA (and he's Platinum).

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 11-Feb-11 13:27pm

John, you firmly stay on your line - my 5.
At the same time, I know many people who collect huge experience without reading, but this experiences sucks! They often unaware of most elementary things, there solutions may work but much better would be if they failed to work, too bad. One should understand this as well.
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 11-Feb-11 13:31pm

By the way, many books are indeed quite useless; and there much more useless books on design and architecture. In many readers it can even make purely negative effect! This is because the readers think they understand something but it is illusionary, and the design sucks. Also, too much faith in reading often blocks the skill to think using one's own head.
--SA