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LineCap Enumeration

Specifies the available cap styles with which a Pen object can end a line.

Namespace:  System.Drawing.Drawing2D
Assembly:  System.Drawing (in System.Drawing.dll)

public enum class LineCap

Member nameDescription
FlatSpecifies a flat line cap.
SquareSpecifies a square line cap.
RoundSpecifies a round line cap.
TriangleSpecifies a triangular line cap.
NoAnchorSpecifies no anchor.
SquareAnchorSpecifies a square anchor line cap.
RoundAnchorSpecifies a round anchor cap.
DiamondAnchorSpecifies a diamond anchor cap.
ArrowAnchorSpecifies an arrow-shaped anchor cap.
CustomSpecifies a custom line cap.
AnchorMaskSpecifies a mask used to check whether a line cap is an anchor cap.

You can draw the start or end of a line in one of several shapes called line caps. GDI+ supports several line caps, such as round, square, diamond, and arrowhead. The following illustration shows a line with a round cap and an arrow cap.

Pens

The following example draws a line with an arrowhead at one end and a round cap at the other end. To run this example, Create a Windows Form and handle the form's Paint event. Paste the example code into the Paint event handler passing e as PaintEventArgs.

No code example is currently available or this language may not be supported.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
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