Seeing Data: Designing User
Interfaces for Database Systems
Using .NET by Rebecca M. Riordan
Fantastic Discussion Of Ui Development For Winforms Projects
Rebecca provides an invaluable resource to help developers focus on a
commonly overlooked but vital part of an application--the user experience.
--David Sceppa, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation Rebecca
Riordan takes UI programming and practices to new heights. She has
gone byond simply explaining the theory behind UI programming practices,
providing code samples that are practical, well-documented, and can be
immediately incorporated into a development project. --Wendy Chun,
AVP/Product Development, SunGard Insurance Systems Riordan has
produced what is THE reference guide on user interface design in .NET.
Serious developers and beginners alike will learn both design techniques
that can put applications over the top and pitfalls to avoid. --Kelly J.
Martens, Manager, Information Systems and Development, JJ Koepsell
Company Build Outstanding User Interfaces with .NET: Principles,

Techniques, and Code Nowadays, users and clients demand exceptionally
usable software. But few developers are trained to create high-quality user
interfaces, and few .NET books offer much help--until now. In Seeing
Data, Microsoft MVP Rebecca M. Riordan shows how to use .N ETs
advanced UI tools to build applications that reflect todays interface design
best practices. She offers visual examples, code, and techniques for
every .NET project. Writing for experienced .NET developers, Riordan
introduces core principles of effective interface design--including focus,
flow, alignment, proximity, contrast, and consistency. She demonstrates
how to architect databases for better usability, and how to build more
effective form layouts. Next, she systematically tackles user interaction,
showing how to: *Help users navigate DataSets, manipulate data, and
generate reports *Utilize menus, toolbars, buttons, and Help systems
*Enforce data integrity *Simplify installation and customization Riordan
covers essential technical underpinnings ranging from GDI+ Managed
Classes to ADO.NET data binding. She presents dozens of Visual Basic
.NET examples--all designed for easy, quick reuse, and downloadable
from the books companion Web site, along with C# equivalents.
Personal Review: Seeing Data: Designing User Interfaces for
Database Systems Using .NET by Rebecca M. Riordan
The one quality that makes this book a clear winner is the quality of the
content and clarity of author Rebecca Riordan's writing. She uses a
friendly, humorous, often bitingly sarcastic voice that eases the normal
tension accompanying such a complex topic as UI design for Windows
applications with .NET technologies. You'll appreciate this tone as Riordan
takes you through some very challenging scenarios in developing winning
desktop apps.
The main focus is on presentation tier technologies and techniques used to
create great programs that customers will really enjoy using. The book
starts out with five phenomenally-written chapters on GDI+, typography,
color, and image programming that every developer working with .NET
should read, whether they're examining UI design for desktop applications,
or otherwise. It also includes a helpful glossary of development terms
mentioned throughout the text that you'll enjoy and refer to often.
Riordan also attempts to demystify the many complexities of .NET
databinding within Windows Forms. as do most Addison-Wesley texts, the
book's physical properties are to be appreciated, using sturdy binding and
thick paper, making the book close and sit easily after a session open on
your lap (and who hasn't wrecked at least book doing so?).
The only downside to this book (and a minor one at that) is the exclusive
presentation of code in Visual Basic .NET, which would make the book
largely one-dimensional to programmers working with that language (or
liberal minded C# readers). But programming language semantics aside,
this is a real gem, and one you'll want to pickup for your WinForms team
projects.

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