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Beautify Your UIs with Perfect Pen and Brush Control

Spice up your interfaces by taking full advantage of the Pen and Brush classes capabilities in the .NET Framework. Learn to create dashed and striped lines, control line joins, and use brushes to create interesting patterns and gradients.
18 Oct 2006, 17:53:49   Source: Beautify Your UIs with Perfect Pen and Brush Control   Tags: Graphics VB.NET

"Fat" Marching Ants: An Algorithmic Experimentation Using GDI+

"Marching ants" are a common UI feature in image editing programs but giving the ants a little more visual texture is a harder problem than you'd ever dream. This article discusses four different algorithms for making elegant, 3D ants with varying levels of performance, accuracy, and control.

Generate Thumbnail Images from PDF Documents in .NET

This article presents VB.NET code to create thumbnail images from a directory of Adobe Acrobat PDF documents using the .NET Framework.
21 Dec 2005, 09:12:00   Source: Generate Thumbnail Images from PDF Documents in .NET   Tags: VB.NET Graphics