Introduction to the Line and Shape Controls

Visual Basic power pack controls allow us to draw lines, rectangle and oval shapes on your Windows Forms application. These controls accept many of the graphics methods of system. Drawing namespace. This enables you to draw lines and shapes in a single step without having to create graphics objects, pens, and brushes.

We can able to draw horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines, rectangles, squares, ovals, circles, and rectangles and squares with the help of power pack graphical controls. Now we discuss about and Shape Controls

Introduction to the Line and Shape Controls

The Visual Basic Power Packs Line and Shape controls are a set of three graphical controls that enable you to draw lines and shapes on forms and containers.

LineShape control -is used to draw horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines.

OvalShape control is used to draw circles and ovals.

RactangelShape control is used to draw rectangles and squares.

Shape

LineShape
 SimpleShape

OvalShape
RactangleShape

  • Drag the LineShape control from the Toolbox drag to a form or container control.
  • Drag the sizing and move handles to size and position the line.

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Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPacks

Dim ShapeCon As New ShapeContainer

Dim testLine As New LineShape

ShapeCon.Parent = Me

testLine.Parent = ShapeCon

testLine.StartPoint = New System.Drawing.Point(10, 10)

testLine.EndPoint = New System.Drawing.Point(300, 300)

Note: When any Line or Shape control is added to a form or container, ShapeContainer object is created.