Developing.Net Custom Controls and Designers Using C

I've been developing custom controls in C# for 3 months now after developing custom Java controls for years. I must say initially that this book was not much help. If you need a real beginner book that holds your hand step by step buy Petzold. However, after delving into the intricacies of Windows Forms you'll definitely find this book useful. The OutlookTab example in this book invaluable. It's a real world example and the author tackles some of the more advanced development topics. I agree with other reviewers that this book is not as clear as you would hope. Also you will definitely still need to read the MSDN docs and probably look at the some disassembly to get a good grasp of developing your own custom controls.

Covers every aspect a serious control developer needs to know. I especially liked the detailed coverage of how to include designers and resources with web controls. Light on fluff, heavy on code. Author also helped me with complex problems via e-mail. Can't beat that!

This book provides the best coverage on data binding(30 pages) I have yet seen. This chapter alone makes the book a worthy purchase.