.NET Windows Forms in a Nutshell offers an accelerated introduction to this next-generation of rich user interface development. The book provides an all-inclusive guide for experienced programmers along with a compact but remarkably complete reference to the .NET Framework Class Library (FCL) Windows Forms namespaces and types. Included on CD is an add-in that will integrate the book's reference directly into the help files of Visual Studio .NET.

This book is a desktop reference and tutorial for Windows Forms, the new API for writing GUI applications for Windows. Windows Forms is a part of the .NET Framework, the first version of which shipped in February 2002.

.NET Windows Forms in a Nutshell is divided into two parts. The first half is a tutorial, which introduces the most important concepts and classes in Windows Forms and describes how to use these to build interactive applications. It also describes GDI+, the drawing API that most Windows Forms applications will use.

The second half is a quick reference to the Windows Forms and GDI+ namespaces. It provides namespace maps, type descriptions, member signatures, and useful cross-references and annotations.