Summary

GDI+ can be used to write fun applications. In this chapter we covered more practical uses of GDI+ for real-world Windows applications. Topics discussed in this chapter included how to write interactive GUI rectangular and nonrectangular Windows applications, how to add custom text to images, how to read and write images to and from a stream or database, and finally, how to create owner-drawn controls.

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