How to draw a line on picture box control in a Windows application?

How to draw a line on picture box control in a Windows application?

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The steps to draw a line on picture box control are as follows:

1. Add a picture box control to the Windows form as follows:
   
   private System.Windows.Forms.PictureBox pictureBox1;
   
   
2. Write the following code in the Form1_Load event:
   
   pictureBox1.Dock = DockStyle.Fill; //optional
   pictureBox1.BackColor = Color.White; //optional
   pictureBox1.Paint += new System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventHandler(this.pictureBox1_Paint); this.Controls.Add(pictureBox1);
   
   
3. Write the following code in the pictureBox_Paint Event:
   
   Graphics g = e.Graphics;
   g.DrawString("This is a diagonal line drawn on the control",
   new Font("Arial", 10), System.Drawing.Brushes.Blue, new Point(30, 30));
   g.DrawLine(System.Drawing.Pens.Red, pictureBox1.Left, pictureBox1.Top,
   pictureBox1.Right, pictureBox1.Bottom);
   
   
4. The g.DrawString() method draws the given string on the picture box control and the g.DrawLine() method draws the line on the picture box control.

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