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Monthly Archives: January 2018
Justify paragraphs in C#
This example adds the ability to justify paragraphs to the example The example Align text by lines in C#. This is a bit more complicated than aligning text on the left, right, or center. (I don’t know why Microsoft didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in fonts, graphics, printing, strings
Tagged align text, C#, C# programming, draw paragraph, draw string, draw text, DrawString, example, example program, fonts, graphics, justify paragraphs, printing, strings, Windows Forms programming
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Align text by lines in C#
The example Draw paragraphs one line at a time in C# shows how to draw the lines of a paragraph one at a time. Once you can do that, it’s a simple matter to align text one line at a … Continue reading
Posted in fonts, graphics, printing, strings
Tagged align text, C#, C# programming, draw paragraph, draw string, draw text, DrawString, example, example program, fonts, graphics, printing, strings, Windows Forms programming
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Draw paragraphs one line at a time in C#
My next few posts show how to draw paragraphs on a Graphics object in various ways. The examples draw on PictureBox controls, but it’s important to remember that they work with any Graphics object including the one that you are … Continue reading
Posted in graphics, printing, strings
Tagged C#, C# programming, draw paragraphs, draw string, draw text, example, example program, graphics, printing, strings, Windows Forms programming
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Print values in a grid in C#
This example prints a set of values in a grid. The following DrawValueGrid method does all of the printing. It’s long but the pieces are relatively simple. // Draw a grid containing the indicated values. private void DrawValueGrid(Graphics gr, RectangleF … Continue reading
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Tagged C#, C# programming, example, example program, graphics, grid, print, print array, print grid, printing, Windows Forms programming
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Use Word to make a PDF containing pictures in C#
The example Make a Word document containing pictures in C# shows how to make a Word document containing pictures taken from selected files. This example is similar to the that one (see that post for details) except it saves the … Continue reading
Posted in files, graphics, interoperability, Office, Word
Tagged C#, C# programming, directories, example, example program, files, graphics, image, interoperability, make PEF, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Office, PEF, picture, Windows Forms programming, Word
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Make a Word document containing pictures in C#
Occasionally you may want to combine selected pictures to make a Word document. This example shows one way you can search for files matching a pattern and then add them to a new Word document. This is a fairly long … Continue reading
Posted in files, graphics, interoperability, Office, Word
Tagged C#, C# programming, directories, example, example program, files, graphics, image, interoperability, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Office, picture, Windows Forms programming, Word
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Quick tip: Use pinvoke.net to get information about API functions for use in C#
Platform Invocation Services (pinvoke) lets allows managed .NET code call unmanaged API functions that are implemented in a DLL. The functions in a DLL are exposed via an Application Programming Interface (API). The enormous .NET runtime library wraps many API … Continue reading
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Tagged API, API declarations, API functions, C#, C# programming, declarations, example, example program, pinvoke, pinvoke.net, Windows Forms programming
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Find Visual Studio’s Immediate window
For some reason, the Immediate window seems to be a never-ending subject for Microsoft treasure hunts. It seems like each new release of Visual Studio moves the Immediate window to a new location buried deep within the menu hierarchy. In … Continue reading
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Tagged C#, C# programming, example, example program, IDE, Immediate window, Visual Studio, Windows Forms programming
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Map device coordinates to world coordinates in C#
Sometimes it’s convenient to draw in one coordinate system (called world coordinates) and map those coordinates to the screen’s device coordinates. The example Map points between coordinate systems in C# shows how to do this in C#. For example, the … Continue reading
Extract comments from a group of files in C#
I’m finishing up another book (I’ll announce it when it’s ready in a week or so) and I’m working through one of the thornier issues of any programming book: spell-checking code comments. I already have an example to extract comments … Continue reading →