Drawing smooth text and pictures on the extended glass area of your WinForm in Windows Vista

Pang Wu

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This article tells you how to draw text and pictures correctly on your Vista form's extended glass area.

textonglass_src3.zip
- textonglass.sln
- textonglass
  - bin
    - Debug
      - Resources
      - textonglass.vshost.exe
  - Form1.cs
  - Form1.Designer.cs
  - Form1.resx
  - GlassText.cs
  - Program.cs
  - Properties
  - Resources
    - ksokoban.png
    - Thumbs.db
  - textonglass.csproj
textonglass.zip
- textonglass.sln
- textonglass.suo
- ksokoban.png
- textonglass.exe
- textonglass.pdb
- textonglass.vshost.exe
- Form1.cs
- Form1.Designer.cs
- Form1.resx
- GlassText.cs
- obj
  - Debug
    - Refactor
      - TempPE
        
        Properties.Resources.Designer.cs.dll
      - textonglass.csproj.GenerateResource.Cache
      - textonglass.exe
      - textonglass.Form1.resources
      - textonglass.pdb
      - textonglass.Properties.Resources.resources
    - textonglass.csproj.FileList.txt
  - Program.cs
  - AssemblyInfo.cs
  - Resources.Designer.cs
  - Resources.resx
  - Settings.Designer.cs
  - Settings.settings
  - ksokoban.png
  - textonglass.csproj
textonglass_src2.zip
- textonglass.sln
- ksokoban.png
- Form1.cs
- Form1.Designer.cs
- Form1.resx
- GlassText.cs
- Properties.Resources.Designer.cs.dll
- Program.cs
- AssemblyInfo.cs
- Resources.Designer.cs
- Resources.resx
- Settings.Designer.cs
- Settings.settings
- ksokoban.png
- textonglass.csproj
textonglass_src.zip
- textonglass.sln
- textonglass.suo
- textonglass.vshost.exe
- Release
  - Resources
    - ksokoban.png
    - textonglass.exe
    - textonglass.pdb
    - textonglass.vshost.exe
    - textonglass.zip
  - Form1.cs
  - Form1.Designer.cs
  - Form1.resx
  - Properties.Resources.Designer.cs.dll
  - Release
    - TempPE
      - Properties.Resources.Designer.cs.dll
      - textonglass.csproj.GenerateResource.Cache
      - textonglass.exe
      - textonglass.Form1.resources
      - textonglass.pdb
      - textonglass.Properties.Resources.resources
    - textonglass.csproj.FileList.txt
  - Program.cs
  - AssemblyInfo.cs
  - Resources.Designer.cs
  - Resources.resx
  - Settings.Designer.cs
  - Settings.settings
  - ksokoban.png
  - textonglass.csproj

bin\Release\Resources\ksokoban.png
bin\Release\textonglass.exe
bin\Release\textonglass.pdb
obj\Release\ResolveAssemblyReference.cache
obj\Release\textonglass.Form1.resources
obj\Release\textonglass.Properties.Resources.resources
obj\Release\textonglass.csproj.GenerateResource.Cache
obj\Release\textonglass.exe
obj\Release\textonglass.pdb

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Pang Wu

Software Developer

China

Pang is experienced in developing IM system, distributed backend caching & storage system for large scale internet services. He also has a broad interest in playing around all kinds of programming stuff, like hacking, UI programming. He's current project is MSNPSharp, a C# implementation of MSNP API library which allows you to develop your own MSN client and bot. Please see http://code.google.com/p/msnp-sharp/

Drawing smooth text and pictures on the extended glass area of your WinForm in Windows Vista

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