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February 2007 - Posts

• Convert images to the CMYK color space with GdiPlus-X

  According to Wikipedia, CMYK (short for cyan, magenta, yellow, and key) is a subtractive color model used in color printing. This color model is based on mixing pigments of the following colors in order to make other colors: C = Cyan M = Magenta Read More posted Wednesday, February 28, 2007 5:34 AM by cesarchalom | 1 Comments Filed Under: GDI+ AND IMAGES

• HOW TO: Save Images in different formats with GdiPlus-X

  That's a very easy task for GdiPlus-X: IMPORTANT: All samples below use the new GDIPlus-X library, that is still in ALPHA version, but is already stable and reliable to do the majority of GDI+ tasks. Download the latest stable release from Codeplex: Read More posted Thursday, February 22, 2007 1:58 PM by cesarchalom | 3 Comments Filed Under: GDI+ AND IMAGES

• NEW GRADIENT BACKGROUND CLASS

  After all those posts discussing and showing how to create gradient backgrounds for VFP forms, I decided to create a simple but powerful class to ease this process. The GRADBACKGROUNDS class is stored inside the GRADIENTOBJECTS.VCX, the class that I Read More posted Friday, February 16, 2007 3:20 AM by cesarchalom | 8 Comments Filed Under: GDI+ AND IMAGES

• Extract icons from EXE, DLL and ICO files with GdiPlus-X

  Some types of files allow to store various icons together with other binary data, such as EXEs and DLLs. .ICO files also allow to store more than one icon in a single file. Windows uses this a lot, and stores almost all the icons that it uses all the Read More posted Friday, February 09, 2007 2:37 PM by cesarchalom | 6 Comments Filed Under: GDI+ AND IMAGES

• NEW VERSION OF GPIMAGE2

  After some requests, I'm sending a new version of GPIMAGE2, an adapted class from the original GPIMAGE class from Alexander Golovlev. This new version adds 3 new features to the previous version:Control Smoothing Mode, Interpolation Mode and a Gradient Read More posted Tuesday, February 06, 2007 11:25 AM by cesarchalom | 3 Comments Filed Under: GDI+ AND IMAGES

• MSDN COMMUNITY CONTENT

  Recently, MSDN  added a new and very useful feature to the .NET development site, the MSDN Community Content. According to MSDN, "MSDN Community Content provides an infrastructure for users to comment, edit, and add content to the Visual Studio 2005 Read More posted Monday, February 05, 2007 5:03 PM by cesarchalom | 0 Comments Filed Under: GDI+ AND IMAGES