Recently I needed to create a custom WinForms label-like control that allowed for the text to be displayed in a rotated fashion. Our needs were only for four rotation locations; 0 degrees (the default label position), 90, 180 and 270 degrees. There were other complicating factors, but for this post we’ll only concentrate on this component of the control.
To rotate text using the Graphics.DrawString method you only have to do a couple of things. First you have to use the Graphics.TranslateTransform method, then the Graphics.RotateTransform method, and followed by the Graphics.DrawString. Here’s what it looks like.
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