Is there any way from managed code to determine the bit depth of a given
display? We need to do this from Internet deployed controls, so interop
is not an option.

I have created a round form, using the Graphics.DrawEllipse
() method in the Pain event of the form.  This works fine,
but the edges of my circle are very jagged, not smooth,
and looks pretty bad.  

I've build a control that bases on the Signature Capture Sample from
Microsoft(load bitmap, print on bitmap, paint on control). Works pretty
fine.
But now I want to copy a part of the displayed image to itself at

Is that true that this isVisible method is incredible slow?
Seems that my app is much slower with only this added as a condition to draw
something
Crirus

I was browsing this website
http://www.dotnetcharting.com/gallery/view.aspx?img=10 and I was asking
myself: How can those bars get that nice candy-like shading effect, when
only 1 color (see source under the chart) is given?

I'm working on a control that simulates a timeline and it supports "zooming"
so you can drill down and get finer detail along the timeline. I accomplish
this by always drawing the same tick marks starting at 0 on the x axis, but
I use Graphics.ScaleTransform(zoomfactorX, 1F) to ...

Does anyone knows how to handle painting of  Tabcontrol??!
I've override OnPaint and WndProc ( with m.Msg==WM_NCPAINT) functions, but
doesn't work!
Thanks,

please don't answer this without reading the entire message.  I'm not
asking about machinename.
I am trying to figure out a way to have my remoting system deal with
being behind a firewall, a NAT router or other various network

I draw a bitmap pixel by pixel
There is a way to set region on the bitmap where the setpixel take effect
and regions where not?
Thanks,

I want to fill a rectangle with a custom colour (purple-ish). however when
the generated gif file is viewed the colour in the rectangle is stippled
which seems to me to indicate it saved in as a low res colour.  (Sample code
below)

I'm trying to select a printer in the system printers collection. I'm able
to do this.
However, if the printer is a network printer and happens that this printer
is not on or not ready, I won't be able to know and I try to print a

I am setting PageSettings.Landscape = True in PrintPage event.
I have verified its value and it still prints in Portrait.
Any ideas?

  I am facing a problem fitting the rectangle into a
panel. I am drawing a rectangle on a panel. I have co-
ordinate values in mm and I need the best fit in a panel
irrespective of what the values in mm are. Should I use

I had developed a user control which represents a grid format using
GDI+.
If the grid size increases the control size, i get scroll bar (using
AutScroll feature of User Control) and am able to scroll the grid

   I am working on a graphics application. The scenario
is I would like to change the reference point(origin) to
lower left corner instead of the default upper left corner
of a panel. It is stated that y-down is positive. I would