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Title: OK as far as it goes
Review: The hard part about .Net is its interactions with windows. Eg. To know that if you want to print a page with controls you need to know how to use WM_Print explcitly. With Petzold's background I was hoping to find this deeper info.Not so. It covers the pure .Net stuff pretty well and goes into all of the APIs in some depth, and it is probably the best book on the GUI side of .Net. But it does not address the hard stuff. (It is also a large book and a bit woffly.)So for the real documentation you have to search the news groups etc...(Be aware, only covers Windows/Forms API, not ASP, XML etc.)
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