Chapter 17. Programming with GDI+

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The biggest gain that an object-oriented framework gives us is productivity. It's not necessarily that we can accomplish a greater variety of things with Graphics Device Interface (GDI+); rather, it's that we can be more productive in a shorter period of time. This productivity increase is provided to the framework developers too, resulting in a growing productivity for them as well.

You can walk from New York to Los Angeles, but you can get there a lot faster by car, or fastest of all by plane. Think of the 5-hour trip by plane from LaGuardia to LAX as a productivity gain of about 40 hours. (I am guessing here ...

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