Is there a way to just read and write just a portion of an image. I have
some large images that I want to manipulate but I dont want to load the
whole image, is there a way to just extract the pixels that I want when
given an x/y coordinate.

This is a very basic question. I am using .Net IDE 2003 and
System.Drawing.dll (1.1.4322). I wrote a simple program like this
(ommitting the commons)
using System.Drawing;

Has anybody encountered memory corruption issues of the built-in bitmap
classes? My application occasionally crashes in very bizarre manners -
references in managed objects are corrupted. Sometimes .net is able to
recover into the debugger, sometimes the OS catches it. ...

I can't seem to find any methods to check whether a point is contained
within a GraphicPath. You can get the bounds, but that's not good enough.
Is there a method? Or any piece of sample code?
Thanks,

I have a very high resolution picture taken with a 4 Mega pixel camera,
When i try to make it to a width and height of a business card, It does not
scale down approprioately, it has lots of lines and looks as if the picture
is not taken properly, ia m doing this using a picture box, ...

I tried this:
g.DrawImage(icon, 0, 0,
           new Rectangle(0, 0, icon.Width / 2, icon.Height / 2),
           GraphicsUnit.Pixel);

Hello friends, i have a images folder in which my uploaded images are stored i
want to create thumnails of these images dynamically and show these thumbnail
for example i have a folder named (cards) and in this folder for example
this folder contain 10 images now i want to create ...

I'm new to imaging and need to write a routine to convert images (using .NET
1.1).
I've got it to resize the image, change its resolution and save it in a
different format but I haven't been able to figure out how to change it from

How can i take a image and draw a black border around it lets say of 2
pixels and place the whole thing on another image.
Any help would be appreciated
Jayleen

i read this articl
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/d
esignsurface.asp
I wanted to add a design surface like this in  my application also. i
successfully did but am unable to manuipulate it properly. Like showing

Hello friends, i have a directory in which my uploaded images are stored i
want to create thumnails of these images dynamically and show these thumbnail
how can i do this pls tell me about that.
Thanks

I'm working on an emulator at the moment, and I need to update the display
50 times a second. I'm using a 16-colour indexed bitmap, and generating it is
no problem (I'm using LockBits/UnlockBits and writing the data directly using
a lookup table). However, when it comes to ...

What should i do if I want to  draw a border around my Region.
We used to have FrameRgn API in GDI.
We have FillRegion but can that be used to draw border ?I don't think so.
please give some info on the same.

I get an "ArgumentException: Invalid parameter used at
System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(Stream stream, Boolean useEmbeddedColorManagement)"
exception. it is too ridicilious to get such an exception, can anyone see what
might cause that exception?

I have a form which has transparent areas using transparencyKey. The
problem is, that the mouse event goes through as well, so I can't do for
example a dragdrop on this transparent region or a simple click.
Q: How could I keep the mouse event in my app?