Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET

Strings

Of course, deciding on a font is only half the fun. The real action is drawing strings after the font's been picked. For that, you use the DrawString method of the Graphics object:

Dim myfont As Font = New Font("Arial", 12)
' This will wrap at new line characters
g.DrawString("line 1" & vbCrLf & "line 2", myfont, _
Brushes.Black, 10, 10)

Table 5.1. Font and FontFamily Sizes (Sample Font Is Arial 12 Point at 96 dpi)

Measure	Units	Example	Description
FontFamily.GetEmHeight	Design Units	2,048	Base size, equivalent to Size
FontFamily.GetCellAscent	Design Units	1,854	Height above base line
FontFamily.GetCellDescent	Design Units	434	Height below base line
FontFamily.GetLineSpacing	Design Units	2,355	CellAscent + CellDescent + Leading, normally about 115% of ...