Windows GDI+ understands only half of the fonts out there. Use the QGraphicsText class to work with the other half.
Make GDI+ Less Finicky About Fonts
Published 09/23/2005
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Drawing Curved Objects
Published 09/08/2005
Add support for interactive curve drawing to your MFC app by dropping in theQBezierTracker class.
Managed C++: Use GDI+ to Render Reflected Text
Published 11/22/2004
Tom Archer illustrates how you can use the TranslateTransform and ScaleTransform methods to invert and display the reflection of a string.
Managed Extensions: Using GDI+ to Render Sheared Text
Published 11/15/2004
Tom Archer illustrates how the Matrix object and transforms enable you to draw horizontally or vertically sheared text.
Managed Extensions: Using GDI+ to Draw 3D Text
Published 10/25/2004
Learn how to use GDI+ to render several 3D text effects, such as shadowed, blocked, embossed, and engraved text.
Managed Extensions: Using GDI+ Brushes to Draw Text
Published 10/19/2004
Tom Archer illustrates how the combination of Managed Extensions and GDI+ enable you to draw gradient and hatched text with only a few lines of C++ code.
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MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
Published 04/18/2011
The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.
.NET Framework: Collections and Generics
Published 06/23/2011
The original release of the .NET Framework included collections as .NET was introduced to the Microsoft programming world. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced generics to complement the System.Collections namespace and provide a more efficient and well performing option. Read on to learn more...
How to use Visual Studio 2012 to Download Images from Websites
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Learn how to use a for loop to loop through all of the images found on a web page and save them via the DownloadFile method of the WebClient object.
SOLID Principles in C# - An Overview
Published 05/01/2013
SOLID principles form the base for writing good and clean object oriented code in C#. Learn about the S.O.L.I.D principles and explore C# coding samples for each.
