As i have undersood, GDI+ is not considered to be thread safe.
What about Windows GDI??
is using windows GDI functions considered to be thread safe??
can i access the Hdc for drawing from different threads??

I have a panel with a gradient filled background.  I have drawn a rectangle
on top in a solid color and wish to cut a smaller rectangle out it,
revealing the gradient filled background.
I am having problems trying to find a method or brush that I can use that

How do I allow a user to Draw a highlighting rectangle onto a picture box as
a separate image.
Basically I need to be able to click and drag a box on different parts of an
image and delete them if they are not needed later. This only has to be done

Hellow,
I have a  program that draws lines,text,images on a  graphics object,
from a Thread, using GDI+.
are GDI+ considered to be thread safe, or i must invoke my draw   method to

I'm developing a special kind of imaging program in C#. An "image" in
my program context is layered and can have a real image background.
These are usually 1024 * 768 pixels. I draw vector graphics objects on
top of this, like circles, rectangles, textboxes and arrows in an

How do I load a .tif image into a picture box on a vb.net form?
Thanks,
Brad Shook

Howto configure Button BackgrounImage Appearence in center of button and not
tiled?

How to make advanced charts in vb.net which tool to use to draw charts using
data from sql server 2000. Chart in Crystal reports are not good they don't
have enough features for my use. Any better control or something better?
thx

Is there a retained-mode cavas control for .Net avaialble?
(Something like the tk version, only native windows and/or .Net that can
co-exist with winforms?)
Nice features would be: the ability to contain GDI+ primitive shapes/text &

I have developed a control and override it OnPaint method.
Inside the overriden OnPaint method i am drawing allot of lines.
When i place this control on a Panel and set the AutoScroll property
of the panel to be true so it will repaint the control when it will be

I am using the System.Windows.Forms.PrintPreviewControl for previewing
printed output.  My problem concerns the printable area of the page, some
printers don't support printing right to the edge of the page.  When the
margins are all set to zero, and the printed output is scaled to ...

I try to find an example on how to print images and text using the GDI+.
I search on google but find nothing.
=> Do you know a site where there is such examples ?
Regards.

I am hacking on a usercontrol that creates a drawing surface with a
coordinate system but the design is not there yet. What I mean by coordinate
system is that it should have a ruler both horisontally and vertically. That
is no problem to draw. Also when implementing a zoom ...

Is there any way to create a Custom Font to be used with Graphics.DrawString
that has a constant width in pixels?
I'm trying to code a display for an emulator that works as much like the
original piece of equipment as possible.  The spec of the original piece

Has anyone got a work solution, VB.NET preferably though C# will do, of
image capture from an MPEG or AVI stream i.e. frame capture?
I was using a Windows Media Player solution, that was working 90% of the
time until about 2 months ago.  I say 90% of the time, as just now and then