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A highly configurable class that can generate a few styles of speech balloons in GDI+.

Why Recursion in C# works well when using WPF

Reusable extension of JPanel with rounded borders, shadow and antialiasing

simple animated loading text , like last msn messenger , show animation and transparent mask in wpf

One of the things that PowerBuilder developers have been asking for years is the ability to include state-of-the-art graphic elements in their applications. With the advent of WPF Targets in PowerBuilder.NET 12.0, that capability has finally arrived. You can do quite a bit with the new layout managers, the skinning capabilities, effects, etc., directly within the IDE. For example, look at the following few lines of XAML code. The highlighted code is what I added; the rest was generated automatically by PowerBuilder.NET when I placed the commandbutton on the WPF window.

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A flexible charting control to display 2D data

The first part of an introduction to the iOS graphic APIs. In this article I look at some of the Quartz 2D / Core Graphics APIs.

A follow up to the simple pie chart control article which will detail the new improvements

PSAM Control Library is a WinForms library containing the IncipitViewer control for drawing musical notes which can be read from MusicXml file or added programmatically. The library was initially a component of larger software Polish System for Archivising Music but I thought it could be useful for other software developers so I decided to distribute it under BSD licence. PSAM Control Library is written in C# under Microsoft Visual Studio Express.

Improve drawing speed using layers in .NET