This is an example Winforms project to show how to add graphics such as lines, shapes, and images onto a Winforms application.
This project was created for the How to Add Graphics to a C# Windows Form Application tutorial.
In order to open and run the solution, you will need:
- Visual Studio (2017, 2019+)
- The .NET desktop development workload (for Winforms to work).
- If you do not have this, you will need to open Visual Studio Installer, select the above package, and then update Visual Studio.
- Download or clone the project to your local computer.
- Inside the GraphicsApp folder, open "GraphicsApp.sln", which is the solution file for the project.
- Press the green "Play" button at the top of Visual Studio to start the application.
- Navigate to "/GraphicsApp/bin/Debug/netcoreapp3.1".
- Click to Open the file "GraphicsApp.exe".
- form1.cs (Code) - This includes the entire example code for the article. The code to create graphics is inside the Form1_Paint(...) function.
- form1.cs (Designer) - This shows the canvas. When you open it, the canvas is empty at design time (because the shapes are generated at runtime). This area is where you can view properties and event handlers, and where the Form1_Paint(...) event handler is added (as shown in the article).
