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Summary: Perfect Reference Book
Review: Definitely one of the books you want in your shelf. I usually use it as a reference book. This book is full with sample code which MSDN is missing. Author also goes in the depth of many topics with interesting and fun samples. Many topics are covered in details. Full chapters on Fonts and Colors, rectangles and regions, two chapters on images tells you that author has done enough research on GDI+. In other books I usually found couple of pages on these topics. I admire the Printing chapter. Almost 100 pages chapter. WHOAaa... Every thing about pinting in .NET including customization on printing related dialogs. Great reference book. Worth spending your money. Well recommended.
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Summary: NOT MUCH DEPTH ON GDI+
Review: I AGREE WITH THE READER FORM NEW YORK; READ PETZOLD'S BOOKS (EITHER VB OR C#) AND YOU WILL GET AS MUCH OR MORE ON GRAPHICS THAN THIS BOOK WILL GIVE YOU.
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Summary: Excellent Book for GDI+
Review: I was begineer for graphics programming.I wanted to use GDI+ in my application but i did not know the right way to use it then after i searched for document and technical articles on "GDI+ in .NET" and i got this book.I read this book and found the right way.It covers everything: rendering, Advance Imaging, Advance 2D Graphics, Transformations and Printing, GDI for the Web, and Custom Controls. Well-written, good explanations, and source for both C# and VB.Net.I am thankful to Mr.Mahesh Chand who wrote this book and explained every thing in very organized way.
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Summary: Best For Beginners
Review: i was beginner for graphics programming, so i was confused about
the book, so i have seached for book then i have got " Graphics Programming with GDI+" by Mahesh Chand. it's a Nice book for beginners and for masters also, Language is too cool.
Thanks Mahesh Chand......
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Summary: Insightful .. Excellent Printing Chapter
Review: I was looking for a good document and technical articles on "Printing in .NET" and picked this book by chance after looking at "Printing" topic. I was amazed with the coverage of Printing Chapter of the book. Author certainly has spend quality time on this book. The Printing chapter has about 80 pages and explains every little details of printing in .NET, which you will never find in MSDN or in other books. I havn't done much with entire GDI+ (accept printing and text) but this book certainly helped me to answer my questions. I give it a go.
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Summary: Very, very disappointed
Review: I was very disappointed with this book. I needed a book to help me make the jump from GDI to GDI+ and this was most certainly not that book. This was little more than a rehashing of the .NET framework library help file as far as far as I could tell, with all its limitations. It offers little or no additional value. There were no useful discussions of the underlying abstract coordinate system of GDI+. Oh sure there was a rudimentary discussion of the Cartesian coordinate system, but no real discussion of how the vector shapes you draw in GDI+ get rendered on pixels, and how this can lead to all sorts of frustrating "off by one pixel" issues. There was no dicussion about why DrawRectangle and FillRectangle seem to draw rectangles of different sizes. In fact, the caption in one drawing in the book makes me think the author has no idea this issue even exists.
There are no explanation of the subtle issues surrounding metafiles (like why do I still need a hDC, since hDCs are no longer used in GDI+) and on and on the list goes. I can browse through the list of methods and properties in the .NET framework just fine, thanks. What I really need is a book that talks about the subtle issues of GDI+. My recommendation to you? Buy one of Petzold's new .NET books. They aren't specific to GDI+, but there's a heck of lot better information in the sections he devotes to GDI+ than there is in this lousy book.
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Summary: Microsoft.NET Consultant: MCSD.NET,MCSE,MCDBA,MCSA
Review: I wrote that review here in amazon after i wrote one in c-sharpcorner.com to say 'thank you Mahesh for your new book' actually this book is very useful and organized in a way that let you get the most of it. not like the other books in the market that just tell you guidlines, Mahesh explain everything in very organized way. That's your book if you want to understand GDI+.
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Summary: Totally cool
Review: I'm really impressed with Addison-Wesley's .NET Development series and they have some great authors on their roster - Mahesh Chand is definitely one of them. There are many GDI+ books out there, most of them are quite good. As a matter of fact, I've really liked every one that I've come across. However, Mahesh has a really cool perspective and gets right to the point. He doesn't just tell you what to do, he tells you why to do it. I know, this annoys the 'pragmatists' out there, but trust me, no matter how much you don't like theory and only want examples, you'll like this book. GDI+ is a pretty specific topic, but there are a ton of great examples here and I couldn't recommend this book more. The fact that he runs www.c-sharpcorner.com only made me want to buy his stuff more. Great Job!
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Summary: Kudos ..
Review: I've to start with saying "great work" to the author who has compiled a great book with many real world code samples. I've been looking for a book on graphics programming which discusses the basics of drawing process in .NET and this is where I found full satisfaction. Briefly, Mr. Chand starts the book with introduction of GDI+ for a beginner as well as from a GDI developer's perspective. Chapter 2 definitely is the smartest and cleanest chapter. Its a tutorial with explaining how the whole drawing and rendering process works with flow charts and images. Later chapters just get better and better. Chapter 3 is all about the Graphics class, its members, and how to use the in applications. Chapter 4, 5, & 6 are dedicated to brushes and pens, colors, font, text, rectangles and regions. Its unbelivable how author has discussed every little detail about these objects. How about 45 pages on just pens & brushes? Chapter 7 and 8 are dedicated to Imaging and Advanced Imaging (over 100 pages). Again every little details are covered. I personally found Chapter 9 the most useful. This chapter discusses advanced drawing and some of the topics are detailed discussions about containers, line caps and styles, graphics paths, metadata of images, blending - alpha blending and color blending and so on. Chapter 10 is all about transformations. Transformation of font, text, images, paths, and even color. Wonderful. Printing perhaps does not belong to this book but its again one of the great chapters in this book. Over 100 pages dedicated to printing and you will find every single object followed by sample code. I havn't used next chapters - which are DEVELOPING WEB APPLICATIONS using GDI+, Best Practices, GDI Interop, and Exceptions but I am not these are some bonus to the reader. OVERALL, a PERFECT BOOK you need to learn any thing defined in System.Drawing and other drawing namespaces. All chapters are follwed by a real world practical example such as writing your own PaintBrush, TextEditor, Image Viewer, Printer Dialog and so on. Try it and you will find yourself very satisfied. I sure did. Cheers! Monica
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Summary: Amazing Book of GDI+ By Mahesh Chand
Review: If i say that this book is good, then its wrong because it is excellent for GDI+.
This book includes all things about GDI+. The way of explaining is totally amazing like first author explains What is GDI+", Its very benificial for beginners who want to learn more about GDI+. Next author explains the defferences between GDI+ and
GDI. Now the topics - Graphics Class, Working with Brushes and Pens, Colors Fonts and Text, Rectangles and Regions and working with Images are the basics for the beginners. Intermediate user can see their valuable topics like - Advance Imaging, Advance 2D Graphics, Transformations and Printing. Advance users can enhance thier knowledge with the topics - Developing GDI+ Web Applications, GDI+ Best Practice, GDI Interoperability and Miscellaneous GDI+ Examples. Also some featured topics are - Optimization of drawing quality
Interactive color blending
Printing a .NET
Viewing and manipulating images
FAQs for GDI+ definetly improves the knowledge and interest about GDI+.
Graphics Programming in GDI+ gives some special treatment for effective programming in GDI+ in .NET Framework.
At last really its amazing...
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