User Interfaces in C#: Windows Forms and Custom Controls, by Matthew MacDonald, has the disadvantage of being the third of three books on Windows Forms that I've read recently. There wasn't much in this book that wasn't already covered by the other two. It is similar in content to Erik Brown's book, but doesn't have the overarching application to tie all of the chapters together. Like that book, it doesn't include much on security, localization, deployment, etc. – you'll need to go to Chris Sells' book for that.

The chapter on design was interesting, but I didn't really feel like the concepts were significantly carried through the rest of the book. The information on data binding was great – so much for my presumption that Windows Forms books wouldn't discuss data binding without databases. Hopefully I'll be able to incorporate data binding into a future Windows Forms application and give my newfound knowledge a try. Also, I wasn't familiar with “custom extender providers,” so I enjoyed reading a bit about those, and enjoyed the article on custom layout engines that he references in that chapter.

All in all, I'm glad to have read the book, and it should make a decent reference book as well.