Is there an easy way to draw inverted lines/rectangles/circles using
System::Drawing::Graphics?
I need this to draw outlines that are visible on top of any type of
background image.

Hey folks, I think this is my first time asking a question here, so please go
easy on me
I have an application wherein I render a transparent bitmap (to be specific
-- a chart with a transparent background).... When I do, I then try to copy

I am trying to use Graphics.EnumerateMetafile in order to inspect any
DrawDriverString EMF records in a metafile and then change the string that
is contained within the record before using Metafile.PlayRecord to draw the
modified record.

Is there any way I can execute some sort of search and replace on the text
inside a metafile in code?
For example, if I had an instance of a Metafile I;d like to serach through
it looking for anu instances of the string "hello" and replace it with

What is the width of a New Courier 12 point letter?
Or, how many such characters fit into 6.5 inches?
Thanks in advance

GC.Collect() not cleaning memory, how to find out what references to lots of
memory still exist?
When all my processign is done i set everything to null and then:
GC.Collect();

This code will display a transparent png image correctly:
Bitmap bm = (Bitmap)Bitmap.FromFile(path);
outerImage = bm;
ultraPictureBox1.Image = outerImage;

I get this error when serializing a object. Specificly an bitmap in the
object. This object is obtained from a different dll than the one
serialized, could that be the problem? That seems to be the only
difference...

PerformanceCounterCategory.Create() takes 3 minutes to add a new category!!
How come? What can cause this?

I am in the process of writing a viewport control, that will used to dispay
musical notation. The geometry of the musical notation however is represented
as virtual
units, though I have an algoithm that can convert these virtual units to

When I use the following code in a web page it works fine until my
Bitmap size gets to a certain size, e.g. 5214 x 3223. Then I get a red
cross, but no run time error occurs. What is the maxmum size of the
bitmap and how do I trap for the error?

.NET 2.0, VS Studio 2005 Enterprise, on Win XP Pro SP2 machine
Hi,
I have a form in my application that contains some labels and one
picturebox.

I'm having a problem converting an indexed8 tiff image to a 24bit
image. When I convert it with DrawImage or for example
DrawImageUnscaledAndClipped it drops the RGB with one. For example
(255,255,255) would become (254,254,254). I've tried the victor image

Trying to convert 8bit indexed to 24bit I came across this:
The code below will NOT convert the indexed8 image to a 24bit image24,
(look below the code snipet)
       Dim image As Bitmap