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a gradient brush is a brush that contains all the color nuances that vary from a starting color to an ending color, like the typical background screen of many installation

GDI+ supports two different forms of a complex curve that can’t be represented as an arc of a circle or an ellipse: a cardinal spline and a B

You can set properties of the Pen object to create custom lines. For example, you can use the DashStyle enumerated property to draw dashed lines using a predefined pattern, and

VB.NET supports the creation of arrays on-the-fly, by using the New operator. For example, look at the following code, that uses GDI methods to display few connected lines ‘ Get

The ASP.NET Page object exposes the MapPath method, which converts a virtual path into a physical path, so it’ is useful for passing arguments to objects that don’t work with

The following routine parses the registry and lists all the installed COM components: ‘ this code assumes that you have used this Imports statement’ Imports Microsoft.Win32′ Print ProgID, CLSID, and

The .NET frameworks provides a set of classes that let you work with the Registry, so it is quite easy to create routine that looks for specific keys to determine

The System.Diagnostics.Process class provides several methods to launch and controls other Windows processes. For example, the following code sample shows how to run Notepad, pass arguments to it, and run

The System.Diagnostics.Process class exposes the GetProcesses static method, that returns a list of all running processes. It is quite easy to leverage this feature to display all running processes in