Where can I use the VB.NET drawing tools?

[capitano]

In Visual Studio .NET, I see a bunch of standard drawing tools on the menu bar: line, square, circle, etc. But they're all grayed-out. I can't seem to figure out how (or when) they're active and useable. Not on forms, not on picture boxes, not on panels, and not on anything else that seems a valuable place to use them.

Anybody know how to use these things?

 

[dalchri]

I do not know what they're for but I do know how to perform graphics operations on windows forms. The form object exposes a method called CreateGraphics. This method returns the graphics object for the form.

Among other things, there are methods like DrawEllipse, DrawRectangle, and DrawLine that will get you your circle, square, and line respectively. Check out the docs for the System.Drawing.Graphics class for more info.

 

[chiph]

Capitano -

Add a bitmap file to your project. When you double-click on it, it's brought up in an image editor where you can make use of those toolbar, uhhhh, tools.

Chip H.