A beginner's question: for drawing tools like pen or brush, should they be
created and disposed everytime they are used or saved for multifple use. e.g.
protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e)
{

First I am new to VB.Net and new to the graphics as well.  I have
written in the past(8+ years) in several languages, but have only
recently begun to write again, now in the newer languages.  I am working
with some data that I am displaying in a linear fashion by using the

I know very little about images. I am a business application developer...
I have a PNG image that has an irregular shape (a rectangle with 2 mountain  
peaks jutting up from the top edge). I am trying to show it on a
transparent background for my splashscreen.

Ok, so I have a printer object. I have an image object.
If I get the bounds in the Document_PrintPage it isn't in pixels. Yet my
Image is. (Why in god's name would you make it so that it was different than
the screen!??!!!  It should already be converted damnit!)  Anyhow, I need ...

    I am new to imaging in applications and wish to create an application
which will draw some images in a Picture Box or similar in Visual Basic in
Visual Studio DOT NET. I have a collection of 8 or so images which will be
drawn in multiple locations kind of like a pac man game ...

i want to create my own control, but this control must be able to rotate.
I know, how to overide OnPaint method.
But..., for example I want to paint this control as rectangle with width 40,
height 60 with variable rotation.

Recently I was fiddling with overriding the WndProc of a customcontrol
inheriting TextBox.  I noticed that when I handled the WM_NC_PAINT
message myself, and I painted the border solid by filling the whole
thing with a color, I was getting weird errors in designtime only when

Is it possible to assign a TypeConverterAttribute to an existing .NET
Framework class or structure?  For example Point has a TypeConverter called
PointConverter but the framework does not have a PointFConverter for PointF.  
Why does the framework not have these TypeConverters?

I'm trying to accomplish a way to modify images at runtime (ASP.Net
Application).
So, I thought I can load the image, operate on it and than save it again
under the same path => wrong! When I try to save it on the same path as it

I have a picture box with a picture in it.
I place a label control over the picture control, and I set the BackColor
property on the label to Transparent.
And yet the Label does not show as transparent at runtime or design time.

I'm newbie to C# and the same to GDI+ so please be patient ;)
My problem is that I can't obtain image displaying as I'd like to. When
I load for instance small bitmap (48 x 48 x 4bit) in it's original size
it looks fine. But ... when I scale it to bigger size (either by matrix

Hi, I was recently trying to create my own fully custom form, and I was
hoping I could either remove and add my own close/min/max buttons, or
redraw the close/min/max buttons that are the defaults in
System.Windows.Forms.Form.  Any helpful hints?

I'd like to create a simple app that uses the desktop as its form.  I'd
like to output text (and the occasional image) to the desktop.
How can I draw text/images directly to the desktop?  I see that GetDC
and ReleaseDC will enable me to get and release a handle to the

How can I use ColorMatrix and ImageAttributes to transform a image object and
save it to disk?
All the sample I found just draw it on screen.
Thanks very much.

I have a bitmap that I want to display on a form.
When I use: <graphics>.DrawImage(bmp, new Rectangle(10, 10, bmp.Width, bmp.Height)) - everything works as expected.
But if I use:
DrawImage(bmp, new Rectangle(10, 10, bmp.Width * 10, bmp.Height * 10))