A tool to generate face images and animated gif files for different angles and lighting using only a single face image. Also includes Face Matcher using Microsoft Face API.

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GDI+

A Simple Sliding Puzzle

5 Mar 2023 by spidergeuse

Manipulate WinForms controls to make a simple jigsaw puzzle

.NET

GDI+

image

Recreating Gdiplus Hatches with SkiaSharp

28 Dec 2022 by Andy De Filippo

A simple technique to quickly port hatch effects from Gdiplus to SkiaSharp

GDI+

SkiaSharp

JSON

Drawing Rich Text with GDI+

14 Oct 2022 by Andy De Filippo

Render Rich Text with GDI+ by tapping into the power of API hooking

3D Face Viewer and Matcher

19 Mar 2022 by Yang Kok Wah

A tool to generate face images and animated gif files for different angles and lighting using only a single face image. Also includes Face Matcher using Microsoft Face API.

Gradient Color Picker - Revised Again

14 Jun 2021 by gggustafson

This article revises an earlier revision of the Gradient Color Picker (V2). The incentive for the revision was a reader request for a larger number of initial color choices.

A Control to Display Pie (and Doughtnut) Charts with Highly Customizable Formatting

14 Apr 2021 by Angelo Cresta

An extension of "A control to display pie charts with highly customizable formatting" from mattsj1984 that also renders doughnut.

.NET

GDI+

PngAnimation

1 Apr 2021 by Aleh Baradzenka

One of the easiest ways to animate images for your program

Gradient Color Picker V2

28 Mar 2021 by gggustafson

Revises an earlier implementation of the Gradient Color Picker

Touchscreen GDI+ Drawn Keyboard

16 Feb 2021 by practicalDeveloper

A custom drawn keyboard usercontrol and TextBox with keyboard popup

.NET4

Windows

GDI+

DICOM Image Viewer

24 Oct 2020 by Harsha T, Amarnath S, S Mahesh Reddy

A simple viewer of images stored in the DICOM 3.0 File Format (C#). The file should have raw pixel data, uncompressed. Window Level functionality is also provided.

Special 'Graphics' Objects to Draw Anywhere on Your Window

15 Aug 2020 by Mohammad Dehghan

Creating special 'Graphics' objects to draw anywhere on your window, including non-client area

A Fully Customizable Knob Control Without Images

17 Jul 2020 by honey the codewitch

Add a flexible knob control to your .NET projects

Design WinForms Controls using Photoshop

2 Nov 2019 by Alaa Ben Fatma

Use your skills as a designer to create gorgeous control

.NET

.NET-Compiler-Platform

WestWorld v5

23 Sep 2019 by Terence Wallace

A continuing series demonstration of Finite State Machines (FSM) where agents inhabit a small town called WestWorld.

CropBox

21 Aug 2019 by Johnny J.

Easily add image cropping to your desktop application

LineNumbers for the RichTextBox

13 Apr 2019 by nogChoco

LineNumbers that dock to a RichTextBox or show as an overlay on top of it

gGlowBox - Create a Glow or Shadow Effect Around a Focused Control (VB.NET)

28 Feb 2019 by SSDiver2112

A custom Panel that creates a glow effect around a child control or a drop shadow when it receives focus

Graphical BinaryTrees

7 Oct 2018 by Mojtaba Hosseini

A graphical binary tree. Features: add, remove, or search for a node. Recursive algorithm has been used

Outline Text

13 Aug 2018 by Shao Voon Wong

How to draw a text with an outline

Outline Text - Part 2

13 Aug 2018 by Shao Voon Wong

Outline Text Part 2

PSAM Control Library

19 Jul 2018 by Ajcek84

WinForms library containing the IncipitViewer control for drawing musical notes

Music Notation in .NET

15 Jul 2018 by Ajcek84

Open source library for music engraving in desktop, mobile and web applications

RoundedButton Control - Demystifying DrawArc

21 Jan 2018 by RickZeeland

This is an alternative for "RoundedButton Control - Demystifying DrawArc"

FreeCal - GPIB Instrument Automation for Metrology Test and Measurement

4 Sep 2017 by Scott Page

FreeCal is a free 100% .NET suite of utilities and instrument drivers for controlling multiple instruments in a Test and Measurement environment.

Build My Own 3D Graphics Engine Step By Step

1 Feb 2017 by Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

How to build my own 3D graphics engine from ZERO step by step

A Beautiful Magnifying Glass Effect of Image in WinForm

12 Jan 2017 by Dean Feng

Use common panel and GDI+ to achieve a magnifier effect of image in winform.

Create Pie Chart Using Graphics in C# .NET

12 Jan 2017 by hari19113

This article shows how to create a Pie chart using the Graphics class in C#.

.NET Canvas for Network visualization

4 Nov 2016 by Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

.NET language Canvas control for Interactive visualizing network data.

Fast SIMD Prototyping

30 Oct 2016 by Shao Voon Wong

Prototype SIMD vectorized code effortlessly.

VisualStudio-Like TabControl

23 Aug 2016 by Alaa Ben Fatma

Inherits the awesome style of Visual Studio's TabControl for better exploiting

Basic Illumination Model in C#

15 Jul 2016 by andalmeida

Basic illumination model in C#.

Matrix Transformation of Images using .NET GDI+

1 Jul 2016 by Yang Kok Wah

Use of GDI+ Matrix class to perform image transformation.

Advanced Image Control

18 Jun 2016 by Patrik Mlekuž

Image Control for viewing most common image formats with advanced features included (Import Image, Preview, Resize, Position, Pan, Zoom, Export Image, Extract Resource Icon).

.NET Versioning and Multi-targeting on C# Application and Component

3 May 2016 by Southmountain

this post discussed .NET versioning and multi-targeting of .NET application and component written in C#.

Vash - A GDI+ Flash-Like Vector Animation Program

27 Apr 2016 by Clayton Rumley

There are those who think I am crazy, and this just might be the proof.

Draw sequence logo

23 Apr 2016 by Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

Sequence logo drawer implements in VisualBasic

.NET

GDI+

How to Use a Font Without Installing it

12 Apr 2016 by Shao Voon Wong

How to use a font without installing it first on user systems

WinDrawLib

11 Apr 2016 by Martin Mitáš

Direct2D or GDI+? Perhaps both, with a help of the right library.

C++ / CLI Introduction and Implementation of FCFS using GDI Library

9 Mar 2016 by The Zakies

C++ / CLI into to using C++ CLI and using GDI library

The Known Colors Palette Tool - Final Revision - Hopefully

25 Nov 2015 by gggustafson

Presents what is hoped to be the final revision to the Known Colors Palette Tool and the earlier article of the same name.

Sciter - multiplatform embeddable HTML/CSS/scripting UI engine

11 Nov 2015 by c-smile

Basics of Sciter embedding principles, high-level overlook of Sciter SDK structure.

Poor Man's TIFF Viewer

25 Oct 2015 by Bedri Egrilmez

A Single-DLL, multi-page TIFF .NET viewer control with panning and thumbnails support

Chess Piece Design In F#

23 Oct 2015 by Farhad Reza

This article describes the use of GDI+ in F# to design chess game pieces.

.NET

Windows

GDI+

WestWorld - Part 4

20 Jul 2015 by Terence Wallace

A demonstration of Finite State Machines (FSM) where agents inhabit an Old West style gold mining town called West World.

RoundedButton Control - Demystifying DrawArc

18 Jul 2015 by gggustafson

This article presents the RoundedButton control and describes the .Net DrawArc method, the subject of a number of questions on programming forums.

Create SPC CP and CPK Chart using C#

14 Jul 2015 by syed shanu

Use C# to create a simple SP, CP and CPK chart

.NET

GDI+

Visual-Studio

Graphical Representation of Data in ASP.NET Web Page

24 Jun 2015 by Khaled Abdelhamid

Drawing on a web page on the fly using GDI+ and Flood-Fill Technique

Custom Winamp-Style TrackBar (Slider)

2 Jun 2015 by Johnny J.

A custom drawn TrackBar that looks like the one in the classic Winamp skin

.NET

VS2013

GDI+

Wave Simulator with C#

24 May 2015 by Mustafa Sami Salt

Experimental wave simulation program made using VS 2010 C#

Moving Border Buttons

14 May 2015 by gggustafson

Presents how to create a button with a moving border

Drag-and-Drop Tool to Reduce JPEG Quality (and file size)

14 Apr 2015 by Yvan Rodrigues

Today's high-resolution cameras produce huge files, with quality you may be willing to sacrifice.

Adorners, Glyphs, Behavior, and ControlDesigner for WinForms Controls

30 Mar 2015 by SSDiver2112

Interactive Design Time Control Overlays to make editing custom controls easier.

Win8ProgressRing Control

27 Mar 2015 by gggustafson

This article presents a user-drawn control, named Win8ProgressRing that mimics the Windows 8 Progress Ring.

Windows

GDI+

Dev

Custom Button Control with Gradient Colors and Extra Image (VB.NET)

19 Mar 2015 by SSDiver2112

This is a simple to use custom button control, but with a lot of visual design options.

gTrackBar - A Custom TrackBar UserControl (VB.NET)

16 Mar 2015 by SSDiver2112

TrackBar with custom coloring, value display, label, and increment buttons.

Animated Controls using graphic layers

25 Feb 2015 by gggustafson

This article discusses how to create animated controls using graphic layers.

Monitor GitHub Activity With Event, Project Description, and Language Word Clouds

21 Feb 2015 by Marc Clifton

Watch github events in more-or-less real time as we display a word cloud of events, project descriptions, and project languages.

Animated Image Slide Show

28 Jan 2015 by syed shanu

Animated Image Slide Show for Winforms using C#

Control Chart Using .NET

27 Jan 2015 by syed shanu

USL/LSL Control Chart using .NET for Quality Control

SPC XBAR and Range Chart

25 Jan 2015 by syed shanu

XBAR and Range Chart using C#

Pareto Chart C#

24 Jan 2015 by syed shanu

Pareto Chart Control Using C#

.NET

GDI+

Dev

Learning Binary and Hexadecimal

24 Nov 2014 by Jeremy Falcon

A beginner's guide to talking like a computer.

Customizable ComboBox Drop-Down

20 Nov 2014 by Lea Hayes

A combobox control with a customizable drop-down

Class Diagram Generator

19 Nov 2014 by Pieter Alec Myburgh

A project driven .NET class diagram generator that allows generation from dll or exe.

Culture Aware Month Calendar and DatePicker

10 Nov 2014 by Thomas Duwe

A month calendar and date picker with culture awareness.

Fast Colored TextBox for Syntax Highlighting

24 Oct 2014 by Pavel Torgashov

Custom text editor with syntax highlighting

FastTree and FastList

6 Oct 2014 by Pavel Torgashov

Fast and flexible replacing of standard WinForm’s controls: ListBox, CheckedListBox and TreeView

A simple C# library for graph plotting

4 Sep 2014 by Zimmermann Stephan

An easy to use C# library for quick and simple graph plotting.

Create Falling Blocks games in .NET

4 Sep 2014 by Luis Pérez Fernández

Create your own Falling Blocks game in .Net WinForms platform.

Drawing Images With Sizing Paddings

22 Jul 2014 by Ray K

Visual Style-like image stretching for custom skinning

The Semantic Web and Natural Language Processing

16 Jul 2014 by Marc Clifton

Using AlchemyAPI, process and filter RSS feeds in the Higher Order Programming Environment

HOPE - Higher Order Programming Environment

10 Jul 2014 by Marc Clifton

A Dynamic Runtime Semantic Computation Environment

Hunt the Wumpus

20 Jun 2014 by Marc Clifton

A Higher-Order-Programming Environment (HOPE) Example

Windows Forms Controls: VB.NET Translucent Control using GDI+

10 Jun 2014 by a_pess

Build a standard Windows Forms translucent control using GDI+ & VB.NET

Contour Analysis for Image Recognition in C#

8 Jun 2014 by Pavel Torgashov

The theory of contour analysis and its practical application to image recognition and OCR

Fun with Outlines

8 May 2014 by Yang Kok Wah

Techniques in tracing outlines in a drawing

.NET

GDI+

Design

T-Rex animation

23 Apr 2014 by zapsolution

Self contained EXE animation

EMF Printer Spool File Viewer

23 Apr 2014 by Duncan Edwards Jones

A viewer application for EMF format spool files

WinForms Tab Control with properly drawn bottom tabs

20 Feb 2014 by Vladimir Svyatski

How to correctly draw WinForms Tab Control with bottom alignment when visual styles are enabled

PixelBox: A PictureBox with configurable InterpolationMode

28 Jan 2014 by Yvan Rodrigues

The standard Windows Forms PictureBox is missing one very useful line of code.

Using "RDP Encoder Mirror Driver" to Capture Screen

27 Jan 2014 by Amazing LED Display

High Performance Method for Capturing Screen

Free .NET Spreadsheet Control

23 Jan 2014 by Yasushi Irizawa

.NET Spreadsheet Control written in C#. Supports Cells Merge, Border Style, Pattern Background Color, Data Format, Freeze, Formula, Macro and Script execution.

HUD window 64-bit (DWM composition)

2 Jan 2014 by zapsolution

DWM composition

Gradients made easy

26 Dec 2013 by Mike Hankey

A utility to design gradients interactively.

Win8MarqueeProgressIndicator Control

5 Dec 2013 by gggustafson

This article presents a user-drawn control, named Win8MarqueeProgressIndicator.

Windows

GDI+

Dev

Gallery Server Pro - An ASP.NET Gallery for Sharing Photos, Video, Audio and Other Media

18 Oct 2013 by Roger Martin

Gallery Server Pro is a complete, stable ASP.NET gallery for sharing photos, video, audio and other media. This article presents the overall architecture and major features.

Box2D DebugDraw with MFC

6 Oct 2013 by arussell

Implement the Box2D DebugDraw functions in MFC

SevenSegmentLEDDigits Control

6 Oct 2013 by gggustafson

Introduces a user-drawn control, named SevenSegmentLEDDigits, that displays a decimal value as a sequence of seven LED segment digits.

Windows

GDI+

Dev

Anatomy of a UserControl (SliderControl)

5 Oct 2013 by gggustafson

This article presents a step-by-step guide for the implementation of a UserControl named SliderControl.

Windows

GDI+

Dev

Simple Performance Chart

25 Sep 2013 by eclipse2k1

A simple Performance Chart/Monitoring Control

Applying Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms to Solve the Traveling Salesman Problem

13 Sep 2013 by geoyar

Applying Ant Colony Optimization algorithms to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem.

artificial-intelligence

Boost

Visual-Studio

GDI+ Plot ActiveX Control

5 Sep 2013 by Leslie Zhai

GDI+ 2D plot ActiveX control

Persian Gulf in 3D Anaglyph

12 Aug 2013 by Mohammad Reza Khosravi

This application uses some simple 2D methods to make 3D scenes which can be seen with Red/Cyan Anaglyph glasses.

Digital Thermometer Using C# and ATmega16 Microcontroller

1 Jul 2013 by HiteshSharma

Hardware interfacing through serial port using C#

An MFC Chart Control with Enhanced User Interface

17 Jun 2013 by geoyar

An MFC linear chart control with enhanced appearance.

GMap.NET - Great Maps for Windows Forms and Presentation

16 Apr 2013 by radioman.lt

GMap.NET is a powerful, free, cross platform, Open Source .NET control. It enables the use of routing, geocoding, and maps from Google, Yahoo!, OpenStreet in Windows Forms and Presentation, and supports caching!

Circular Indeterminate Progress Indicator Control

10 Apr 2013 by gggustafson

This article introduces the reader to the steps taken to create a user control that displays a circular indeterminate progress control.

A Simple Vector-Based LED User Control

5 Apr 2013 by Steve Marsh

The LEDBulb is a .NET user control for Windows Forms that emulates an LED light. Its purpose is to provide a sleek looking representation of an LED light that is sizable, has a transparent background and can be set to different colors.

TIMPIST

14 Mar 2013 by Zimriel