I received this picture on the e-mail . Have been working on 1884 . This work was done only by single line, starting from the nose and ending the lower part, as shown on the image Of course, there are some final toutches. What do you think about this amazing art .... http://gandoza.google...more >>

Is there an easy way to draw inverted lines/rectangles/circles using System::Drawing::Graphics? I need this to draw outlines that are visible on top of any type of background image. Thanks in advance, Magnus...more >>

..NET 1.1/2.0 I have a need to display high-resolution scrollable images in a .NET application (Windows Forms). One well known solution is to create a Panel with AutoScroll set to "true" and then add a PictureBox or another Panel to it, that is used to display the image. The above approach ...more >>

Hi, I am trying to use Graphics.EnumerateMetafile in order to inspect any DrawDriverString EMF records in a metafile and then change the string that is contained within the record before using Metafile.PlayRecord to draw the modified record. Unfortunately I have found no useful documenta...more >>

What is the width of a New Courier 12 point letter? Or, how many such characters fit into 6.5 inches? Thanks in advance ...more >>

Is there any way I can execute some sort of search and replace on the text inside a metafile in code? For example, if I had an instance of a Metafile I;d like to serach through it looking for anu instances of the string "hello" and replace it with "goodbye" before drawing the metafile onto ...more >>

GC.Collect() not cleaning memory, how to find out what references to lots of memory still exist? When all my processign is done i set everything to null and then: GC.Collect(); and then GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers(); but it still shows that my process takes 400 MB of memory. Is there any ea...more >>

hi, I have some task with rendering text in winform and then printing it. For now my solution is: - store text with some tags in db (ex. Ron is great <t>friend</t>) - in app before rendering it I replace tags with appropriate html tags (ex. <font style="color:red"></font>) - put html in htmll...more >>

This code will display a transparent png image correctly: Bitmap bm = (Bitmap)Bitmap.FromFile(path); outerImage = bm; ultraPictureBox1.Image = outerImage; But if I do it as the next code shows, the transparency is lost. Why? Bitmap bm = (Bitmap)Bitmap.FromFile(path); outerImage = Bitmap....more >>

Hey folks, I think this is my first time asking a question here, so please go easy on me I have an application wherein I render a transparent bitmap (to be specific -- a chart with a transparent background).... When I do, I then try to copy it to the clipboard using: bmp.Save(filename)...more >>

PerformanceCounterCategory.Create() takes 3 minutes to add a new category!! How come? What can cause this? ...more >>

..NET 2.0, VS Studio 2005 Enterprise, on Win XP Pro SP2 machine Hi, I have a form in my application that contains some labels and one picturebox. Running on my main development machine [win xp pro HP] (1280x768 22" LCD) the form looks right. The development machine has .NET 2.0 and VS 2...more >>

When I use the following code in a web page it works fine until my Bitmap size gets to a certain size, e.g. 5214 x 3223. Then I get a red cross, but no run time error occurs. What is the maxmum size of the bitmap and how do I trap for the error? Code is here. The actual details of what is draw...more >>

I am in the process of writing a viewport control, that will used to dispay musical notation. The geometry of the musical notation however is represented as virtual units, though I have an algoithm that can convert these virtual units to inches. In what way would I need to set up the PageUni...more >>

Hello, I get this error when serializing a object. Specificly an bitmap in the object. This object is obtained from a different dll than the one serialized, could that be the problem? That seems to be the only difference... Any way to fix this? Thanks, Schneider below if the code and ...more >>