Summary

This chapter has provided you with a look at several advanced techniques that can be used to radically increase the power and beauty of your user interfaces. You learned how to use GDI+ to directly control 2D rendering such as drawing lines, shapes, and filling shapes with solid brushes or even complex brushes such as color gradients. The chapter then illustrated how to take the GDI+ basics already provided and apply them to creating forms and controls with irregular shapes. Finally, you saw how to use visual inheritance and globalization to further enhance the power and scalability of your Windows Forms applications.