A Programmer's Guide to .NET

Chapter 11. Graphical functions and GDI+

• The graphics device interface

• The graphics device interface plus (GDI+)

• Graphics in Microsoft .NET

• System.Drawing namespace

• System.Drawing.Drawing2D namespace

• System.Drawing.Imaging namespace

• Practice

• System.Drawing.Text namespace

• Printing

• Graphics in ASP.NET applications

In this chapter, we will explore the graphical functions available in the System. Drawing namespace and its secondary namespaces. Clearly such a huge topic deserves more than one chapter – possibly a book on its own – so in this chapter we will only cover the essentials of the graphical functions and provide several examples that will help you start to use graphics functionality in .NET applications.

We start this chapter with an overview of ...