17.1. Introduction
In this chapter, we overview the FCL’s tools for drawing two-dimensional shapes and for controlling colors and fonts. The FCL supports graphics that enable programmers to visually enhance their Windows applications. The many sophisticated drawing capabilities are part of namespace System.Drawing and the other namespaces that make up the .NET resource GDI+. GDI+ is an application programming interface (API) that provides classes for creating two-dimensional vector graphics (a way to describe graphics that makes them easy to manipulate with high-performance techniques), manipulating fonts and inserting images.
We begin with an introduction to the .NET framework’s drawing capabilities. We then present more powerful drawing capabilities, ...
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