Working with Images, Bitmaps, Icons, and Metafiles

GDI+ provides the Bitmap class for working with raster images and the Metafile class for working with vector images. The Bitmap and the Metafile classes both inherit from the Image class.

In This Section

• How to: Load and Display Bitmaps
  Describes how to load and draw bitmaps.

• How to: Load and Display Metafiles
  Shows how to load and draw metafiles.

• Cropping and Scaling Images in GDI+
  Explains how to crop and scale vector and raster images.

• How to: Rotate, Reflect, and Skew Images
  Describes how to draw rotated, reflected and skewed images.

• How to: Use Interpolation Mode to Control Image Quality During Scaling
  Shows how to use the InterpolationMode enumeration to change image quality.

• How to: Create Thumbnail Images
  Describes how to create thumbnail images.

• How to: Improve Performance by Avoiding Automatic Scaling
  Explains how to draw an image without automatic scaling.

• How to: Read Image Metadata
  Describes how to read metadata from an image.

• How to: Create a Bitmap at Run Time
  Shows how to draw a bitmap at runtime.

• How to: Extract the Icon Associated with a File in Windows Forms
  Describes how to extract an icon that is an embedded resource of a file.

Reference

• Image
  Describes this class and has links to all of its members.

• Metafile
  Describes this class and has links to all of its members.

• Bitmap
  Describes this class and has links to all of its members.

Related Sections

• Images, Bitmaps, and Metafiles
  Contains links to topics that discuss different types of bitmaps and manipulating them in your applications.

Topic	Location
Visual Studio 2005 Image Library	Visual Studio - General UI and Language References
Visual Studio Image Library	Visual Studio - General UI and Language References