Section 17.15. Wrap-Up

17.15. Wrap-Up

This chapter began with an introduction to the .NET framework's drawing capabilities. We then presented more powerful drawing capabilities, such as changing the styles of the lines used to draw shapes and controlling the colors and patterns of filled shapes.

Next, you learned techniques for manipulating images and creating smooth animations. We discussed class Image, which can store and manipulate images of various formats. We explained how to combine the graphical rendering capabilities covered in the early sections of the chapter with those for image manipulation.

You also learned how to incorporate the Windows Media Player control in an application to play audio or video. Finally, we demonstrated Microsoft Agenta technology for adding interactive animated characters to applications or Web pagesthen showed how to incorporate Microsoft Agent in an application to add speech synthesis and recognition capabilities. In the next chapter, we discuss file-processing techniques that enable programs to store and retrieve data from persistent storage, such as your computer's hard disk. We also explore several types of streams included in Visual Studio .NET.