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

Summary

You won't need to add drawing capabilities to every project you create. However, when you need the capabilities, you need the capabilities. In this hour, you learned the basic skills for drawing to a graphics surface, which can be a form, control, memory bitmap, or one of many other types of surfaces. You learned that all drawing is done using a Graphics object, and you now know how to create a Graphics object for a form or control and even how to create a Graphics object for a bitmap that exists in memory.

Most drawing methods require a pen and a rectangle, and you can now create rectangles and pens using the techniques you learned in this hour. After learning about pens and rectangles, you've found that the drawing methods themselves ...