Metafiles in GDI+

GDI+ provides the Metafile class so that you can record and display metafiles. A metafile, also called a vector image, is an image that is stored as a sequence of drawing commands and settings. The Image class is a base class of Metafile class.

GDI+ can display metafiles that have been stored in the following formats:

• Windows Metafile (WMF)
• Enhanced Metafile (EMF)
• EMF+

Drawing Metafile Images

To display metafile image, use Metafile class to load metafile image and then call DrawImage method of the Graphics class.

The following code example demonstrates how to display a metafile image:

Dim myMetafile As New Metafile("Mountain.wmf") myGraphics.DrawImage(myMetafile, 10, 10)