C# 2008 For Programmers Third Edition Deitel® Developer Series

17. WPF Graphics and Multimedia

Nowadays people’s visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.

—Robert Doisneau

In shape, it is perfectly elliptical. In texture, it is smooth and lustrous. In color, it ranges from pale alabaster to warm terra cotta.

—Sydney J Harris, “Tribute to an Egg”

There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

—Pablo Picasso

Objectives

In this chapter you’ll learn:

To manipulate fonts.

To draw basic shapes like Lines, Rectangles, Ellipse