Working with Images
In this section, you will see how to use two of the most common graphic types a programmer interacts with: bitmaps and icons. As stated earlier in the chapter, all user-interface objects in Windows are some form of a bitmap; a bitmap is simply a collection of pixels set to various colors.
Images
The namespace library gives us three classes for working with images: Image, Bitmap and Icon. Image is simply the base class from which the others inherit. Bitmap allows us to convert a graphics file into the native GDI+ format (bitmap). This class can be used to define images as fill patterns, transform images for display, define the look of a button—its uses are many. Although the bitmap format is used to manipulate images at the ...
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