- Paperback: 864 pages
- Publisher: Microsoft Press,U.S.; illustrated edition edition (1 Sep 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0735605661
- ISBN-13: 978-0735605664
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 18.8 x 4.1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,290,697 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Targeted for professional developers, this book delivers a print version of official Microsoft guidelines for creating well-designed, visually and functionally consistent Windows user interfaces. Includes a new section that addresses common development missteps and offers ready solutions.
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Comprehensive Style Guide
18 Nov 2001
This book is a frame by frame, widget by widget, menu item by menu item prescription for "proper" Windows application etiquette. By following this book's advice, your applications will look and feel just like a member of Microsoft Office. You'll learn everything from how many units to space a button from the border of a box to how to select multiple discontinuous pieces of text and then copy and paste them across applications. There's even instructions on editing the registry so that your documents can be printed from the explorer.
It's essentially a style guide for Windows GUIs the way the Chicago Manual of Style is a style guide for writing English. It won't make you a good writer, but no one will correct your punctuation.
I actually found this book useful from a Windows user perspective. It tells you how all the controls are supposed to work. If you use MS apps a lot, you've probably intuited a lot of this, but it's interesting to see it all laid out.
This book does not explain how to use the Windows APIs to create GUIs. Get a book on Visual C++ or VB for that. This book does not explain how to design a usable application. Read Jeff Johnson's GUI Bloopers or Alan Cooper's About Face. This book does not teach you to be a visual designer.
This book is about as interesting to read as a typical user's manual. It's one unforgiving piece of advice and description after the next without a single case study in the entire 500+ pages.
Even so, if you want to understand how Windows apps are "supposed" to behave or you have to write such applications yourself, this book is a must-have.
18 of 23 people found the following review helpful
An excellent reference book
25 Oct 1999
A great reference book that makes it easy to follow the Windows interface standards. Microsoft has come a long way with their user interfaces, and this book lets you learn from their efforts.
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Looks very promising!
18 May 2000
I haven't finished this book yet, but so far I'm very pleased. It's very comprehensive, and contains many screenshots. It also contains information about integration w/ Internet Explorer, which is important to me. The only downside is that it's written by Microsoft, so some of Windows' shortcomings aren't really discussed.
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