.net - What would be the best way to simulate Radar in C#?

Question

I have a Picture box inside a Groupbox in my form with the Picture of a radar set as the background picture. My intention is to dynamically load tiny Jpeg images within the radar area (overlaid) at runtime but I am unsure as to the best way to achieve this. All crazy ideas welcomed (but I would prefer sane easy to do ones). Thank you all.

Answer 1

It depends a lot on what your "radar" needs to look like, but almost certainly you'll need to implement the Paint event handler, and draw the contents of the radar display yourself. A picture box will only get you so far ("not very").

GDI+ is very easy to use to draw circles, lines, text, and images, and will give you complete control over how your display looks.