Contents tagged with GDI
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Generating GDI+ Images for ASP.NET MVC Views
This post is about applying the same technique I presented for ASP.NET Web Forms, but this time for MVC.
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Generating GDI+ Images for the Web
.NET’s Graphics Device Interface (GDI+) is Microsoft’s .NET wrapper around the native Win32 graphics API. It is used in Windows desktop applications to generate and manipulate images and graphical contexts, like those of Windows controls. It works through a set of operations like DrawString, DrawRectangle, etc, exposed by a Graphics instance, representing a graphical context and it is well known by advanced component developers. Alas, it is rarely used in web applications, because these mainly consist of HTML, but it is possible to use them. Let’s see how.