Drawing with GDI+
GDI+ is responsible for two-dimensional graphics, imaging, and typography for the Windows operating system. The .NET Framework includes classes that act as a managed wrapper around GDI+, providing graphics capabilities for Windows Forms.
The features of GDI+ are similar to those of the Java 2D API included in the Java 2 platform; with some minor exceptions, the principles behind both technologies are the same, and knowledge of Java 2D can easily be translated to GDI+.
The System.Drawing.Graphics class represents a container on which GDI+ operations can be performed; this class is the equivalent of the java.awt.Graphics2D and java.awt.Graphics classes from the Java API.
Obtaining a Graphics Instance
The most common approach to obtaining ...
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