I'm working on some GDI+ code to bring a JPG into a bitmap and dynamically
draw a frame and dropshadow around it.
I've got the image loaded and scaled such that I have room, and can do the
frame, but the dropshadow is, invariably, just a black bar on the right and

I'm releasing a tool soon that works with GDI+.  One of the features is the
ability to import images and produce code.  I've identified 4 ways that a
project could get at images.
1)  Build action embed

I need to create a fax cover page.  For this I am creating a bitmap image
doing the drawing on it and then converting it to tiff format.
I am have a problem with getting the size of the image correct.  I need two
sizes for starters, legal and letter.  When creating new bitmaps you ...

I am writing a graphing application that needs to have
multiple instances of custom graphs written vertically.  I
then need a governer that can interact with all the graphs
by drawing a vertical line to line up the graph points.

I'd like to know if there's a way to identify a file as a valid bitmap which
can be loaded with the public Bitmap(string filename) constructor.
Should I test filename's extension or is there a way to check the header ?
Maybe there's a function which gives me supported extensions so ...

I just read this article about double buffering in GDI+ :
http://windowsforms.net/articles/windowsformspainting.aspx
He shows how to double buffer with this kind of code:
//create our offscreen bitmap

Windows GDI has support for multiple display monitors.  
Where are comparable facilities in the .NET Framework
Class Library.  What are the C# bindings?

Hi all.  I realize this MeasureString topic has been
tossed around quite a bit but I can't seem to make it work
well despite trying out all the postings.  I implemented
all I tried in the little function at the end of this

I have been doing some simple tests, based on the code given in the
MSDN example, with additions to select any of the printers available
on my machine.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlr
fSystemDrawingPrintingPrintDocumentClassTopic.asp

Following on from a conversation with John from MSFT below, are there any
cards that support GDI+ acceleration? And more importantly how is this
possible?

In Visual Studio 2003 I make a new icon file.  By default it shows a 32
x 32 icon which I'm not using.  So I make a new 16 x 16 icon and save
it.  The 16 x 16 icon works fine.
On the next day I start up VS and go to the icon file.  By default it

Although PrinterSettings is marked as [Serializable] attribute, when I call
Serialize() of BinaryFormatter or SoapFormatter(), it raises an exception.
System.Drawing.Printing.TriState is not marked as serializable.
  at

Hi NG
I get allways a OutOfMemory-Exception, when I would get a Graphics-Object,
but it could not be right. When I try with this.Handle it is all ok. When I
try with a Handle from Spy++ I get a OutOfMemory-Exception. What could be

I am very new to programming and C# and had a few questions about bitmaps
and drawing them to the screen.
Question 1:  When creating a Bitmap object from a file, does it keep the
file open for the life of the object or does it just store it in memory.  If

I have been struggling with this for over a week now.  Here's what I need to
do:
1) Load an image into a picturebox control.
2) Draw a transparent box with a colored border on top of the image.