A fast-paced example-driven tutorial to building custom controls using Visual C# 2005 Express Edition and .NET 2.0. If you want to build custom controls with C# but you don't know where to start, or you are intimidated by the huge amount of information that needs to be absorbed, then this book is for you. This friendly tutorial is based on numerous examples with real-world applicability, and includes a case study featuring the development of a fully functional PieChart control. Showing you how to use the free Visual C# 2005 Express Edition environment to develop your controls, Building Custom...

Death comes unto us all...whether you are a fifteen year old girl losing her virginity, a psychologist enjoying his Christmas eve, or a builder surviving the humdrum of married life. Death has a schedule too, but what if he breaks it? What does he make of all humanity and the way it treats itself? Death, becomes an anthropologist, describing the lives of a selection of British people, most of them with something to hide. Today he takes a cup of coffee here and there and watches to see how the lives that he is supposed to collect, live out the rest of their borrowed time. With a glimpse into...