1.3. GDI+ from a GDI Perspective

This section is for GDI programmers. To build on your existing knowledge, we will compare and contrast GDI and GDI+. If you’ve never worked with GDI, we recommend that you skip this section.

We have already mentioned the first and major difference between the two versions: Whereas GDI+ exposes its functionality as both unmanaged and managed classes (through the System.Drawing namespace), GDI is unmanaged only. Besides this major difference, some of the important changes in GDI+ are as follows:

  • No handles or device contexts

  • Object-oriented approach

  • Graphics object independence

  • Method overloading

  • Separate methods for draw and fill

  • Regions and their styles

1.3.1. Elimination of Handles and Device Contexts

As a GDI programmer, ...

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