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GDI+ 3D Demo using C#


An article on 3-D graphics and C#


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Photo Album in C#


An article describing how to make a photo album like program.


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C# Asteroids without DirectX


An implementation of the classic asteroids game using 2D Drawing classes


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Using MeasureCharacterRanges to Draw Text


How to use MeasureCharacterRanges to calculate the bounding rectangles of charaters in a string, to allow characters to be placed along curves.


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Image Format Conversion in .NET


Discusses how to convert image formats in .NET, exemplified by a WebService that converts image formats on the fly!


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Drawing and Editing Lines with GDI+


Here\'s the code to implement a basic graphic user interface to paint, and then edit, lines on a PictureBox.


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Flicker Free Drawing in C#


An article to describe the ways to avoid flicker when drawing.


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Web Image Browser - Lots of images and no time to publish them?


Web Image Browser with directory explorer and thumbnail/web friendly on-the-fly image creation and caching.


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A simple TIFF management class


Using GDI+ to parse TIFF files.


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Creating fancy text effects with C#


Code to create cool looking text for use in your application.


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Drawing POSTNET Barcodes with C#


This article demonstrates a method to draw POSTNET barcodes.


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Create a fractal Christmas tree


This program explores how trees are made using a simple fractal algorithm


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EnhancedImage Project


An article about how to enhance current image characteristics.


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Article Four: Building a UI Platform in C# - Painting Text to the Pixel


GDI+: Getting control of MeasureString, DrawString and MeasureCharacterRanges.


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ImageConverter - Converts images to a specific image format, changing sizes on the flow


ImageConverter allows images to be resized and written to a selected image format.


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Tetris created with GDI+


Tetris created with GDI+


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Random Image Generator


A small app to generate random images using various C# drawing functions.


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Anti Flicker Graphics using Double Buffering and how to make simple graphic moves.


This example will show you how to use doublebuffering and hopefully allows you to make images move across your screen.


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3D Bar Chart


Converting a 2D chart into a 3D chart


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Spheres in GDI+


Drawing spheres on a Panel using conversion between pixel and logical metric units.


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Save images into a multi-page TIFF file or add images to an existing TIFF file


Describes how to save images into a multi-page TIFF file and append images to an existing TIFF file by applying CCITT4 compression.


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How to Load/Display images with C#


How to load/display images in a form in C#, explained with the code of a complete image viewer application


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FlickerFree - Creating flicker-free graphics with GDI+


Sample code on how to create flicker-free graphics with GDI+.


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A simple Windows Forms image viewer


This is a simple viewer application which allows you to apply basic operation on images such as Rotate, Flip, ROI (Region of interest) zoom and Panning.


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Combining GDI and GDI+ to Draw Rubber Band Rectangles


Demonstrates drawng rubber band rectangles using GDI in a .NET GDI app


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Fuzzy DropShadows in GDI+


Creating fuzzy drop shadows for GDI+ drawn objects.


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Per Pixel Alpha Blend in C#


Demonstrates how to create per pixel alpha blending windows


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ExoEngine - a C# 3D engine


A basic 3D engine built using C# and the .NET platform


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Magic Image Generator


In this article, I describe how you can create an image that will change to another if it is selected in Internet Explorer.


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Fading an Image Away


Fading an Image Away


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Fluid Geometry - An Animation Library and Configuration Application


A task-oriented review of an animation library and the application which uses it.


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Bypass Graphics.MeasureString limitations


This sample code computes the width of the string, as drawn by Graphics.DrawString


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How to convert a TTF character to an 8bpp BMP file


This article describes how to convert a TTF file\'s character to BMP.


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Custom AntiAliasing with GDI+


Alternate Antialiasing in GDI+


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Flicker free drawing using GDI+ and C#


Describes how to implement flicker free drawing using C# and GDI+.


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Extended Graphics - An implementation of Rounded Rectangle in C#


An implementation of Rounded Rectangle in C# which could be used to create XP-like buttons and rounded border.


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Determining Ideal Text Color Based on Specified Background Color


A method for programatically determining the appropriate foreground color based on the specified background color


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Sprite manipulation in C#


Basic sprite animation, clipping, z-ordering in C# using GDI+


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Ray casting in a 2D tile-based environment


An article on ray casting in a 2D tile-based environment.


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GenCode128 - A Code128 Barcode Generator


Create Code128 barcodes for WinForms or ASP.NET.


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Image Processing for Dummies with C# and GDI+ Part 4 - Bilinear Filters and Resizing


The fourth installment covers how to write a filter that resizes an image, and uses bilinear filtering


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Building a Simple Image Conversion Utility


This article describes a very easy approach to building an image conversion utility that will permit the user to open a supported image type and convert it to another supported image type.


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.NET System Brushes Painter


Shows how to use different brushes and write owner drawn listbox


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Blending of images, raster operations and basic color adjustments with GDI+


An article on blending of images using raster operations as well as simulating blending modes like those found in Photoshop.


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Image Processing for Dummies with C# and GDI+ Part 1 - Per Pixel Filters


The first in a series of articles which will build an image processing library in C# and GDI+


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Bitonal (TIFF) Image Converter for .NET


How to add bitonal image editing support to your appliactions.


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Image Processing for Dummies with C# and GDI+ Part 3 - Edge Detection Filters


The third in a series of articles which will build an image processing library in C# and GDI+


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Image Processing for Dummies with C# and GDI+ Part 2 - Convolution Filters


The second in a series of articles which will build an image processing library in C# and GDI+.


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DIB to System.Bitmap


An article on DIB to Bitmap conversion.


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Image Processing for Dummies with C# and GDI+ Part 5 - Displacement filters, including swirl


In the fifth installment, we build a framework for generating filters that work by changing a pixel\'s location, rather than colour.


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Flood Fill Algorithms in C# and GDI+


Discusses and demonstrates flood fill algorithms in C# with GDI+.


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Transparency Tutorial with C# - Part 1


An article on alpha blending and transparency


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Transparency Tutorial with C# - Part 2


An article on Compositing, ColorMatrix, and ImageAttributes


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Josh The Egg and The Return of the Shadows


Shadow: a program to add drop shadows to images.


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The Aqualizer Strikes Back!


The Aqualizer: a program to create aqua buttons.


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Image Processing for Dummies with C# and GDI+ Part 6 - The HSL color space


A discussion of the HSL color space, including code for a color picker and image filters


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Transparency Tutorial with C# - Part 3


An article on Compositing, ColorMatrix, and ImageAttributes


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2D Polygon Collision Detection


An article on polygon collision detection. Can be used to implement collision between sprites in a 2D game. The algorithm can also be extended to 3D.


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Image Processing Lab in C#


A tool and library for image processing.


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A 3D Plotting Library in C#


A library which draws 3D images on any GDI+ Graphics object.


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Using Dynamic Graphics in C#


An article on the practical uses of dynamic graphics


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A Resizable Analog Clock in C# using GDI+ & Windows Forms


An analog clock using anti-aliasing & double-buffering which can be resized, even into elliptical shapes.


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Creating a non rectangular form using GDI+


This article descibes ways to creating a non rectangular form using GDI+.


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A Tetris Clone using GDI+


An article on creating a tetris like game using object-oriented analysis and GDI+.


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Creating a professional looking GDI+ drawn custom control


Shows how to create a custom scrolling label control with GDI+ and proper double buffering


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Image Resizing - outperform GDI+


This article discusses a little weakness in GDI+ filters and shows a class for top-quality image resizing.


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How to print text in C#


How printing works in Multipad, a Notepad clone.


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Drawing with C#


A tutorial with examples of how to draw different things on a form using OnPaint.


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Drawing UPC-A Barcodes with C#


Demonstrates a method to draw UPC-A barcodes using C#.


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Convert PDF to Raster Images in .NET


This tutorials demonstrates how to use the PDFRasterizer.NET control to convert PDF to raster images, to display PDF in your Windows application and to silently print PDF documents.


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Convert a Multipage TIFF to PDF in C#


This article shows you how to create a PDF document from a multipage TIFF document in C#.


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ASCII art with C#


A tutorial about writing an image to ASCII converter.


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System.Drawing with C#


The System.Drawing namespace, which contains types that help you with drawing, plays an important role in Windows programming. You need its members to draw a custom control user interface and for sending text and graphics to a printer. Even when you are only using standard controls on your form, you have used some of its members, probably without realizing it. Understanding the System.Drawing namespace enables you to write better -- and probably faster -- code. Here is a 10-minute crash course to familiarize you with it


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Graphics Programming in C#


Like Java, C# provides us with a rich set of classes, methods and events for developing applications with graphical capabilities. Since there is not much theory involved, we can straight away jump to an interesting example (Listing - 1), which prints \"Welcome to C#\" on a form.


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Drawing in 3D: Plotting Points.


Covers the basics of how to plot three dimensional points onto a two dimensional representation.


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Color to Greyscale Conversion


Describes a few of the methods for conversion and transformation available to convert an image from RGB Color to Greyscale.


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C# Scale an Image Keeping the aspect ratio


Nowdays everybody owns a digital camera with a high resolution, so when our application has to handle photos (e.g.: we want to keep an small identity card photo), the user use to send a 3 mega pixels high quality one, ... and most of the times users don\'t know how to make them smaller or they don\'t want to bother about that. What can we do ? Just let .net scale the image (keeping the aspect ratio), so we can show it and save it to disk with the desired resolution


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Matrix Transformation of Images in C#, using .NET GDI+


Use of GDI+ Matrix class to perform image transformation.


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Creating a Watermarked Photograph with GDI+ for .NET


This article describes the process of overlaying a Watermark image on top of a photograph using GDI+ and C# for .NET


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A Page Turn Effect Using C#


This article demonstrates how to use GDI+ to create a page turn effect.


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GDI+ Tutorial for Beginners


GDI+ is next evolution of GDI. In Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft has taken care of most of the GDI problems and have made it easy to use. The first class we must discuss is the Graphics class. After the Graphics class, I will discuss other useful GDI+ classes and structures such as Pen, Brush, and Rectangle. The final part of this tutorial are some examples in C#.


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Antialiasing / Smoothing


Learn how to apply antialiasing on shapes using GDI+. Uses SmoothingMode and PixelOffsetMode enumerations.


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Convert PDF to Raster Images in .NET (CodeBeach)


This tutorials demonstrates how to use the pdfRasterizer.NET control to convert pdf to raster images, to display pdf in your Windows application and to silently print pdf documents.


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3D Pie Chart


A utility class / class library that could be used for drawing 3D pie charts.


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The Snake game in C#


This is a Snake game written using C# 2.0 and GDI+. To run this application, you must have .NET Framework 2.0.


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Transparency Tutorial with C# - Part 3


Continuation of an article on Compositing, ColorMatrix, and ImageAttributes.


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Transparency Tutorial with C# - Part 2


An article on Compositing, ColorMatrix, and ImageAttributes.


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Transparency Tutorial with C# - Part 1


An article on alpha blending and transparency, and the creation of a color-maker.


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Creating Bitmap Regions for Forms and Buttons


This article describes on how to create bitmap regions for WinForms and buttons.


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3D Pie Chart Recommended


Class library for drawing 3D pie charts by Julijan Sribar.


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Fractal Snow


Describes how to draw snowflakes using fractals and contains a nice snow screensaver.


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Free Maps from the Web Using Web Mapping Service Recommended


Overview of using the OpenGIS Web Mapping Service to retrieve maps from the web.


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The Art of Noise


An image synthesis algorithm using noise and interpolation.


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Image Rotation in .NET Recommended


Rotates an image without having to worry about cropping the edges.


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Image Capture


Capturing an image of the desktop or its work area, of a control or its client area, of what's underneath a control or its client area and converting images from one format to another and converting an image to usable icon.


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Creating a Watermarked Photograph with GDI+ for .NET Recommended


This article describes the process of overlaying a Watermark image on top of a photograph using GDI+ and C# for .NET.


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Resizing a Photographic image with GDI+ for .NET


This article describes the various techniques used to resize a photographic image with GDI+ and C#+ for .NET.


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Thumbnail Generator - An easy way to process thumbnails from a large amount of images


Thumbnail Generator application supporting a bunch of image file types (for both: source images and target thumbnails), fixed target image size as well as ratio calculation, and full internationalization.


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A flexible line graph class library in C# Recommended


Looking for a way to draw 2D line graphs with C#? Here's yet another charting class library with a high degree of configurability that is also easy to use.


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Significance of Transformation Order


The attached source code is a stop watch written using C# and GDI+.


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Text Transformation


This article shows you how to use GDI+ classes defined in the .NET Framework class library to apply transformations on text.


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Color Transformation and the Color Matrix


This article discusses the color transformations and how to apply Color Matrix on image colors to provide various effects such as gray scale effects, reduce or increase the contrast, brightness, or redness of an image.


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Image Transformation


Image transformation is exactly the same as any other transformation process. In this section we will see how to rotate, scale, translate, reflect, and shear images.


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The Matrix Class and Transformation Recommended


Matrices play a vital role in the transformation process. In GDI+, the Matrix class represents a 3×2 matrix that contains x, y, and w values in the first, second, and third columns, respectively.


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Introduction to GDI+ Transformations Recommended


A transformation is a process that changes graphics objects from one state to another. Rotation, scaling, reflection, translation, and shearing are some examples of transformation.


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Math Graph in C#


This article and the sample code shows you to draw and print a math graph using GDI+ and C#.


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A Simple Virtual Voltmeter using GDI+ and the GP-3 Board


This is a less complex, nevertheless interesting example of how to use the same board to create a simple voltmeter.


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Creating Word Find Puzzles in C# and GDI+


How to make puzzles with hidden words contained in a matrix of letters.


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Virtual Clock in C# and GDI+ Recommended


This article describes how to create a virtual clock in C#. The hands of the clock are drawn using GraphicPaths.


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HTTP Handlers for Images in ASP.NET


Have you ever thought of streaming thumbnails just by passing query string indicating width or height of thumbnail you need, and most importantly passing those to image itself?


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Trackbar/Progress Bar with Cylinder Effect


Trackbars and scrollbars are convenient ways of displaying a data range. The trackbars and scrollbars that ship with Visual Studio .NET, however, are a little lacking in aesthetics. We at Mycos set out to develop a high-performance dynamic trackbar that tool advantage of the GDI+ api and some of our existing drawing utilities.


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Making Thumbnails of Transparent Images in .NET and C#


When I started writing web applications using .NET, I found myself in need to dynamically create thumbnails of images that could be uploaded by the user or pulled from a database.


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Ray Tracking in C# and .NET


This article shows you how to implement ray tracing in C# and .NET.


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Spiro Designer


Spiro designer is a partial implementation of Spirograph. Spiro Designer uses the Matrix and GraphicsPath classes with their Transform and Rotate methods to build a spiro.


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Hex Colors in C#


Currently I am developing a shareware application for generating image galleries for the web.


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Viewing Multiple Images


I'm writing this article in response to a question on discussion forums, How do I view multiple files on top of each other?


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Drawing Transparent Images and Shapes using Alpha Blending


This article shows you how to draw transparent images and shapes.


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Screen Capture Utility in C# and .NET


After I created my article on Form Capture, I seemed to get quite a few inquiries on how to do a more useful function using .NET: Screen Capture. It turns out that screen capture is done in a much similar fashion.


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A Wheel Control in C#


This article describes a simple Windows control written in C# that simulates a wheel knob like that on your walkman used to change volume. The control is drawn using animation technique.


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Rotating a 3D Cube and Sphere with GDI+


This program shows you how to draw a sphere or a cube and rotate it different speed and different axis.


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Creating your own cool Volume Control using GDI+


In this article, I'll give you an example of creating your own control.


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Playing with 3-D Coordinates Space in C#, GDI+ and .NET Recommended


As I was trying to think of an article to write on GDI+, I started looking through some of my old programming books and came across Tricks of the Game Programming Guru.


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Creating Exploded Pie Chart Having Click Through Functionality


In this article I would like to show you code that would create exploded pie chart and implementing click through functionality to that chart.


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CartWheel Man - Animating GraphicPaths


This simple application illustrates how GraphicsPaths can be animated to look like something is moving across the screen.


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Charting in GDI+


Here is an example of creating simple charts using GDI+ commands in C#. I have used the random class to create 5 random percentage values. I then use GDI+ to plot these values on a chart.


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Keeping score with LED Counter


Every good game needs to display your record breaking score. Before I embark on writing the next killer game in C#...


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Screen Capturing in Form in .NET - using GDI in GDI+


In most cases, GDI+ speeds up your programming of Graphics because (1) It is not a thin veneer over the Windows SDK (2) It makes sense. However, whenever you lose granularity to create a simpler to use architecture, you tend to lose some functionality.


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Adding Copyright to a Graphics


With the popularity of digital cameras and the increase of digital archive web sites allowing you to buy images to use its handy to be able to add a copyright to your image. However you don’t want to just write the word copyright across your image do you? No, in the world of .Net something cleverer is needed.


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Scrollable Picture Box


This project contains a UserControl that allows you to place an Image inside and scroll around the Image.


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Printing out your W2 Form using C# and .NET Recommended


This article covers a fairly practical aspect of using a computer - dealing with forms.


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Working with GDI+ Pens and Fonts


The System.Drawinging.Pen and System.Drawing.Font classes represent pen and font objects in GDI+.


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Graphics Animation Sample


After finishing a text program (lottery) its time for some fun. Everytime a have to work with a new language.I write a small program to bounce some balls in a box.


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Using Transforms with GDI+ in C#


Transforms are matrices that allow you to rotateand translate your graphics shapes. In this example we are going to rotate a very powerful element in C# called the GraphicsPath.


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An Animation Component using C#


Sometimes its desirable to get those graphics moving a bit and this control should help you do just that.


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Business Card Designer Using C#


For those of you that don't want to go out and buy a fancy business card utility, this may prove to be just the trick for designing easy colorful business cards.


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A graphics component in C# Recommended


One of the wonderful features in C# is it is finally easy to create components...


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Paint Brush in C#


Attached project is a paintbrush like application which let you draw graphics object... all in C#


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Graphics using GDI+


This sample project shows how to draw various graphics objects on a Form using GDI+ objects...


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Scrollable Picture Box


This project contains a UserControl that allows you to place an Image inside and scroll around the Image.


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