.NET Compact Framework Programming with Visual Basic .NET

Chapter 16. Text and Fonts

This chapter covers controlling the appearance of text by using classes in the System.Drawing namespace and also by using P/Invoke to drill through to the underlying Win32 libraries for useful text-drawing features that are otherwise not available in the .NET Compact Framework.

The focus of this chapter is on drawing text on the screen of a smart device using the .NET Compact Framework. As we described in Chapter 15, the .NET Compact Framework supports a subset of the graphical output features of the desktop .NET Framework. In general, though, the text-drawing support in the .NET Compact Framework is quite rich. You can do all of the more commonly required text-drawing operations such as selecting different fonts by name, ...