Graphics Programming with GDI+

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Summary: Graphics Programming with GDI+
Review: Simply the best...
This book is the best practicle guide a developer can have with him if he needs to work with GDI+. The most refreshing part of the book is the examples that are part of the book.

For a developer like me who has to work under narrow deadlines, this book helped me do the stuff with less time spent looking and researching for stuff.

I am not so much of a MSDN reader, quite frankly MSDN gets me confused, and GDI+ is a subject that needs a structured approach to it. hence, msdn only provides much more info than required hence creating confusion.

I would recomend this to every developer who wants to play with GDI+.

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Summary: A fantastic work - a MUST HAVE for any ASP.NET developer
Review: That huge surge you just felt was a collective breath of relief and gratitude being exhaled by the members of the ASP.NET community with the release of "Graphics Programming with GDI+". To date, the topic of graphics programming in ASP.NET exists only in a few sparse articles, which exhibit extreme polarity - they're either too easy or too hard, exhibiting not enough practical information or excessive amounts of practices rarely used, respectively.

Thankfully, author Mahash Chand starts off easy with the fundamentals of graphics programming in the .NET world in a very platform-agnostic manner, and then introduces some fairly advanced concepts. The pace is natural and easy, introducing the requirements and fundamentals for programmatic graphics development in applications, and then developing upon concepts like shapes, fills, and fonts.

He also tempers his discussion with a healthy "best practices" section in the latter part of the book that curbs your enthusiasm for developing visual elements to your project, letting you acknowledge the responsibility one must have when working with graphics, in terms of performance and resource consumption.

Too often I've seen books haphazardly try and explain a concept of graphics programming with GDI+ by saying, "check the .NET documentation for more". This is the definitive book out on the market today that will give you the edge in working with graphics.

The book's examples have a natural slant towards Windows Forms applications, but fear not, web warriors - this book is a must have for any ASP.NET developer, as the approach takes you quickly but thoroughly through the rigors of working with dynamic imaging for the browser.

Bravo, Mahesh - we all owe you a debt of gratitude.

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Summary: A very splendid book to have in one's collection
Review: The way the book is been organised is awesome. The book caters the need of both the beginners as well as experienced programmers. It helped me a lot to get into depth of GDI+.

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Summary: Straight to the point
Review: There are not too many books dedicated to GDI+ and Graphics Programming in .NET but this book is definitely one of the finest technical books written on GDI+. As such I am a big fan of AW's .NET Series managed by Don Box and group because of the quality of contents and experts involved in the series.

This book delivers what is promises. Author's writing style is pretty straight forward, which I liked the most. Author talks to the point. As a beginner, you will get it right away.

There are some chpaters such as performance and best practices, Advanced Imaging, Advanced 2D, Transformation and Printing where advanced users will definitely learn what is not discussed in MSDN documentation or in any other books.

All explainations are followed by a sample code, which is pretty nice to have. Just read and run the code. All samples in the book are a seperate project so that's kinda cool.

If you are involve with writing drawing, printing, painting, and UI applications for Windows Forms or Web, you may want to try this one.

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Summary: Welcome addition to the graphics programmers book-shelf.
Review: There are so few books on GDI+ that when one comes along It's usually worth reading, even more so when they are as high in quality as this title.

Beginning from first principles this book takes the reader through the use of GDI+ in a clear and concise style. The graphics class, structures, drawing objects, methods, properties and procedures are thoroughly explained.

Two dimensional graphics, coordinate systems, image manipulation and their integration into a windows forms application are explained with well written examples In C# code. The book also covers printing using graphics and text with clear explanations of how to set printer and page parameters as well as a section for web programmers that details how to use GDI+ In an ASP+ context.

Whether you're just beginning GDI+ programming or already have experience with windows forms and the graphic system, this book will make a great addition to your bookshelf. Certainly, this book is good enough for it to become the featured title in the GDI+ FAQ.

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Summary: Just OK
Review: This book has a really promising title and table of content, but once you start going deeper you'll see just a repetition of information from .net documentation.
There are many tables listing some properties or enumerations with exact wording from .net docs. In some instances author tries to explain more below, but ends up rephrasing the same thing.

There are few good things about the book. Lots of code examples (too bad you have to download it and no CD with book). Some chapters include useful more detailed information, but it's hard to find it within the ".net docs copied" content.

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Summary: Good for what it covers
Review: This book is all about GDI+ drawing, which is basically every thing defined in the System.Drawing namespace. I didn't expect information on Printing and building interactive GUI applications, which was kind of neat. Definitely some interesting and useful stuff and ton of sample code.

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Summary: Disappointed
Review: This book is completely worthless. You can read the .NET Documentation and get the same information. A matter a fact most of it is that same as the .NET documentation. Don't waste your money on this one especially if you have some background in graphics programming for Windows.

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Summary: Needs a lot of improvement.
Review: This book needs a lot of improvement. Go for another book.

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Summary: Good Samples, Easy to Understand
Review: This book perhaps is the easiest to read and understand. Kind of step-by-step tutorials. Each chapter is followed by a useful sample. Some useful and interesting stuff on Web development using GDI+ and printing. Chapters are organized very well. I would add more complex samples. Rest is pretty straight forward. Overall an interesting reading. If you are trying to understand GDI+ classes, not bad at all.