I am a bit new to graphics programing. I am trying in vb.net to make a
3 walled structure which'll give the look of 3d. for that purpose, I
am using same rectangle filled with textured brush for 3 walls. For
the center wall rectangle is to be drawn as is. For the side walls,I

I'm wondering whether is existing any working way of
getting real metrics about the active ContextMenu.
For example ContextMenu(.net) expose window handler
which I tried to use in GetWindowRect call - failed result;

Hello all..
I am trying to figure out why I can't fill a rectangle that has negative
height/width, but I can with an ellipse:
private void Form1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)

i load an image and manipulate it. How can i get it to an
byte array to store it to a blob field of a database?
Thank you!
Dirk

in VB.NET i am looking for the possibility to increase
size of an bitmap by adding white regions e.g. on top and
bottom.
(I load an image having 400x300 Px from file and want to

I am trying to perform double buffering on various areas
of my control for speed issues.  However, when I do this
the images that I redraw are distorted has anyone come
across this before?

Do you guys know what is "Interpolation" and "SmoothingModes" for ? Is it
will have a major affect on "DrawImage" method ? Thanks you all in advance
and so appreciated for your help. Have a good one...
Kate

I use the Bitmap.Save method to save a bitmap image as Gif format. I found
the size of the file is more larger than the image after saved by ACDSee
without quality lost.
How to perform the gif image optimization.

When running the following code:
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Dim ColorDB As New ColorDialog()
ColorDB.ShowDialog(Me)

Looking for a mapping control to allow plotting of lat long points and doing
various zooms and pans for a given region.

I'm developing an application that produces some images in black and white,
but my code creates a 32 bit image. From what I've read the Graphics object
will only draw on 32 bit images. However, once I'm done drawing on the
bitmap I would like to reduce this to 1 bit before saving ...

Hi (again),
i (still) try to draw a string with heading and trailing spaces with an
underlined font.
Font font = new Font("Tahoma", 8, FontStyle.Underline,

I am writting a scanning module into an application that allows for
cropping. I built a custom select box that draws as you mousdown+mousemove
(just like the windws explorer drag select effect). To draw the box itself,
I am using a graphics object taken from my Picturebox and ...

When I draw a line on a control (say a Panel) using Graphics's
DrawLine(new Pen(Color.Red, 1), x1, y1, x2, y2) method, it draws the
line with Red color erasing the previously drawn shape(s) along the line
on the Panel.

I have a form that I am drawing text onto in the top left
corner.  The problem is when I drop a label or even a
button and make the background color transparent it shows
the text that I have drawn in the label even if the label