Having already reviewed three other books on Windows Forms, it wasn't likely that I'd find anything too surprising in .NET Windows Forms in a Nutshell, by Ian Griffiths and Matthew Adams.

The first part of the book is an accurate overview of various features of the Windows Forms library. I was particularly glad to see a chapter on property grids, as they look to be a quick-and-dirty way to provide UI for user options. Kudos for mentioning that putting the user-displayed strings (for the property names, etc.) directly in the class attributes is not a good idea; it was nice to see how you could do proper localization of the control.

I was going to complain about the fact that the rest of the book is simply reference material for the many classes, enumerations, etc. provided by the Windows Forms library. Except I actually started reading through them, and found it interesting to read the short summary statements of each type to get a good feel for what is really available in the library.

I'm not actively doing Windows Forms development these days, so my opinion probably isn't very relevant, but I'd say that this could be a useful reference book to have on your shelf when working with Windows Forms.