Category Archives: drawing

Print the contents of a ListView control in C#

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Rod Stephens

The ListView control, like most controls, includes no support for printing. If you want to display a ListView control’s contents on a print out, you need to do all of the printing yourself. Unfortunately printing in C# is extremely flexible … Continue reading →

Posted in controls, drawing, graphics, printing | Tagged C#, C# programming, controls, drawing, example, example program, graphics, ListView, print ListView, print ListView contents, print ListView data, printing, Windows Forms programming | 22 Comments

Make rectangle extension methods in C#

Posted on June 21, 2017 by Rod Stephens

This example shows how to add rectangle extension methods to the Rectangle and RectangleF structs. The Rectangle and RectangleF structs have several useful properties for determining their geometry such as Left, Right, Top, and Bottom, but they have no midpoint … Continue reading →

Posted in drawing, extension methods, graphics | Tagged C#, C# programming, center, drawing, example, example program, extension methods, graphics, midpoint, MidX, MidY, Rectangle, rectangle extension methods, RectangleF, Windows Forms programming | Leave a comment

Make a 3D globe in WPF and C#

Posted on May 25, 2017 by RodStephens

This example shows how you can draw a 3D globe. More generally it shows how you can make a three-dimensional textured sphere in WPF. The example Draw smooth spheres using WPF and C# shows how to make smooth colored spheres. … Continue reading →

Posted in algorithms, drawing, geometry, graphics, mathematics, wpf, XAML | Tagged 3D, 3D globe, algorithms, C#, C# programming, drawing, example, example program, geometry, graphics, mathematics, sphere, tectured sphere, texture, Windows Forms programming, WPF, XAML | Leave a comment

Graph event probabilities in C#

Posted on May 25, 2017 by Rod Stephens

The example Calculate the probability of an event occurring in a given number of trials in C# shows how to calculate event probabilities. This example graphs the results. You can use the example to get some feel for how the … Continue reading →

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Draw transformed text in C#

Posted on April 11, 2017 by Rod Stephens

This example uses the following Paint event handler to draw transformed text. // Draw some transformed text. private void Form1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e) { // Transform. e.Graphics.ScaleTransform(1.5f, 1.5f, MatrixOrder.Append); e.Graphics.RotateTransform(25, MatrixOrder.Append); e.Graphics.TranslateTransform(80, 30, MatrixOrder.Append); // Make a font. using (Font … Continue reading →

Posted in drawing, fonts, graphics | Tagged C#, C# programming, drawing, example, example program, fonts, graphics, rotated text, transformed text, Windows Forms programming | 2 Comments

Make a sunburst chart in C#, Part 4

Posted on April 7, 2017 by RodStephens

The previous post showed how to make a sunburst chart with curved text. This example extends that one so it can draw multi-line text. The previous post used the DrawTextOnArc method to draw curved text. The text is a distance … Continue reading →

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Make a sunburst chart in C#, Part 3

Posted on April 6, 2017 by RodStephens

The post Make a sunburst chart in C#, Part 1 shows how to build a basic sunburst chart. The post Make a sunburst chart in C#, Part 2 enhances that example by drawing each node’s text at an angle so … Continue reading →

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Make a sunburst chart in C#, Part 2

Posted on April 5, 2017 by RodStephens

The post Make a sunburst chart in C#, Part 1 explained how to build a simple sunburst chart. Unfortunately the node labels used by that chart didn’t fit their wedges very well because the text was all drawn horizontally. This … Continue reading →

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Make a sunburst chart in C#, Part 1

Posted on April 4, 2017 by RodStephens

A sunburst chart displays hierarchical data in a circular diagram. The hierarchy’s root is drawn in the center. Its children sit in a ring around the root. After that, each node’s wedge in a ring is divided among its children … Continue reading →

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Make a shaded ellipse control in C#

Posted on March 22, 2017 by Rod Stephens

Note: Before you can use the ShadedEllipse control in the example program, you must build the solution. After you download the example, build it before you try to view the form. This example walks through building a control that draws … Continue reading →