For both beginning and experienced programmers, this manual on Windows Forms 2.0 explains forms, dialogs, layout, and basic and advanced drawing, followed by instruction on text, printing, components, controls, design-time integration, resources, applications, settings, data binding, multithreaded user interfaces, and deployment. Further information is detailed in appendices on improvements, moving from MFC, delegates and events, component and control survey, drag and drop, and document management. The book is not comprehensive but references other volumes when omitting an explanation of the framework or standard controls. Sells is a program manager for the connected systems division at Microsoft and speaks frequently about the Microsoft .NET program. Weinhardt is a programmer and writer for the Windows Client SDK team. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)