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21- Managing Graphics 1-Basic Concepts  21.1 Introduction
Managing graphics is easy in earlier versions of Visual Basic as
they have built-in drawing tools. For example, In Visual Basic
6, the drawing tools are included in the toolbox where the
programmer just need to drag the shape controls into the form to
create rectangle, square, ellipse,circle and more. However, its
simplicity has the shortcomings, you don't have much choices in
creating customized drawings.    Since Visual Basic evolved into
a fully OOP language under the VB.net framework, shape controls
are no longer available. Now the programmer needs to write code
to create various shapes and drawings. Even though the learning
curve is steeper, the programmer can write powerful code to
create all kinds of graphics. You can even design your own
controls  VB2010 offers various graphics capabilities that
enable programmers to write code that can draw all kinds of
shapes and even fonts. In this lesson,yo