Render GDI+ Text in Individual Controls

In the Ultimate UI for Windows Forms 2005 volume 3 release for CLR 2.0, you could render GDI text using the new TextRenderer class. If you wanted to render text in GDI+, however, you would need to set the DrawUtility.UseGDIPlusTextRendering property to True. Consequently, every control on the form would render in GDI+ once this property was set. If you needed to render text in both GDI and GDI+ modes, that was not possible. To rectify this problem, we created a TextRenderingMode property and added it to all of our base classes.

With the TextRenderingMode property, you can now specify which controls on your form will render with GDI or GDI+. To enable GDI+ text rendering on a specific control, find the TextRenderingMode property in the Properties Window and select GDIPlus from the drop-down list. The code below will allow the WinListView™ control to render it’s text using GDI+ rendering.

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