Microsoft .NET : Draw Asynchronously With .NET

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Technology Toolbox: VB.NET, C#, GDI+ Figure 1. Use Background Threads for More Efficiency. .N ET's GDI+ and multithreading capabilities make short work of performing background graphics operations. The need for rendering charts, graphs, and custom maps progressively is fairly common, yet it's been out of the reach of many RAD environments. For example, graphics rendering on a background thread was nearly impossible in pre-.NET VB. The only means of asynchronous processing available was...

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