Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft® Visual C#™ .NET in 24 Hours

Hour 18. Working with Graphics

Visual C# .NET provides an amazingly powerful array of drawing capabilities, but this power comes at the price of a steep learning curve. Drawing isn't intuitive; you can't sit down for a few minutes with the online Help text and start drawing graphics. After you learn the basic principles involved, you'll find that drawing isn't that complicated. In this hour, you'll learn the basic skills for drawing shapes and text to a form or other graphical surface. You'll learn about pens, colors, and brushes (objects that help define graphics that you draw). In addition, you'll learn how to persist graphics on a form—and even how to create bitmaps that exist solely in memory.

The highlights of this hour include the following: ...