What is the difference between GDI and GDI+?

Question

Are there any differences between those two libraries?

Answer 1

GDI+ is an improvement on GDI. It contains features not readily available in GDI such as gradient brushes, alpha blending, and more image format support.

You can see what other differences are here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536338%28v=vs.85%29.aspx