[ebook]GDI+.Programming.in.C.Sharp.and.VB.dot.NET.(2002)

What is GDI+? GDI is the graphics device interface. The plus sign in GDI+ means that it has been improved for the first release of .NET. Traditionally, GDI programming was more like straight application programming interface (API) programming—not very object oriented. .NET was designed from the ground up to be fully object oriented. Graphics programming is such a big part of Windows programming in general that it needed to become object oriented. This is the plus in GDI+.