Is there a way to control the spacing between letter's of a [Font] when
using the [Graphics] classes "DrawString" method?
For example: "word" rendered as "w   o   r   d"
I can't see any property on the [Font] to do this - and that would seem like

In a drag'ndrop operation I want draw a line between start and final
position of the object i moved (like link in dreamweaver).
I have an object Graphics for the screen : Graphics g =
Graphics.FromHwnd(IntPtr.Zero);

Does anyone know how I can draw a transparent image on top
of a custom drawing?, i.e I want to able to drag my mouse
over the drawing so that will highlight areas on the
drawing behind it.

I'm looking for a smart solution to move (and resize) controls at runtime.
example :
I have a UserControl and several Control on it.
I want that when I click down on a control and move the mouse, all control

I'm using a Bitmap to load an image from disk - but I'm going to use
OpenGL to display it. So I want a flat memory buffer that contains all
the pixel information. Is there any way to get access to the raw
buffer for the Bitmap? Right now I walk across the entire image

Does anyone know the best way to show a tooltip for a
custom control?
John

Is there a way to specify the position to save a frame in a multi-frame
image.  So far I can only save it as the last frame, i.e. append.  This
works fine but would be quicker if I could simply save as the first frame
instead of having to add all the frames just to add one to the ...

   I am attempting to retrieve an EnhancedMetafile from the clipboard that
was copied from another application.  I have verified that the
EnhancedMetafile is correctly copied to the clipboard by opening wordpad and
pasting.  The image pastes correctly in wordpad.  I am needing to ...

The problem is as follows:
We are working on a map control, displaying a map of the world in
latitude-longitude.
To be able to draw graphics on the map in "world" coordinates we used the

There is no way to extract an EnhancedMetafile: with
object o = d.GetData(DataFormats.EnhancedMetafile);
I always obtain an object null reference to "o".
Someone knows why this appens? There is some way to bypass this problem?

I have an MDI application that sometimes has a form on top
of another form with a custom control on it.  Does anyone
know a way I can get the control to redraw itself when the
user moves the form that was on top of it?

I've spent the afternoon trying to understand the finer points of
PathGradientBrushes and LinearGradientBrushes using the MSDN docs and
Petzold.  I understand much of these tools but would like to find a book
that explains finer details.

I m building a drawing application (VB.NET) and i try to mimic the way
lines are used in Visio.  I created two controls for each edge, and i
draw a line from startEdge to endEdge. All these are done on a panel.
Problem is when i add two lines (two sets of controls+line) and try to ...

I can't figure out how to crop the size of an image I'm layering text over.
I'm doing (roughly) the following:
       Sub Sample(ByVal font As Font)
           Dim myText As String = "Hello!"

I have a line defined by two endpoints, (sx,sy) and (ex,ey).  I have a
length len.  I would like a formula to compute the point on the line (px,py)
that is len distance from (ex,ey).  I know this isn't rocket science... but
it is eluding me for the moment.