Bitmaps and Metafile
The .NET Framework makes it very easy to work with images of various sorts. The System.Drawing namespace has the abstract class Image that provides functionality for derived classes such as Bitmap and Metafile. A bitmap stores an image as an array of pixels. A metafile stores an image as a set of drawing commands.
Drawing an Image
The shared method FromFile in the Image class creates an image from a file whose file name is specified by a string. The DrawImage and DrawImageUnscaled methods of the Graphics class can be used to draw an image onto a drawing surface specified by a Graphics object.
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