Alpha Blending

Since my last post was on drawing transparency color keys in .NET CF, I thought I should explore alpha blending as well. It is possible to do alpha blending .NET CF, but not without some effort (i.e., venturing into p/invoke). Here, at the .NET CF UI and More blog, the author writes:

Briefly, there are two ways to do alpha blending in WM5: the AlphaBlend() function and with the Image COM object in the Imaging API.

He then goes on to explain how to implement these two methods. (direct link). The happy alternative is offered through OpenNetCF (who else) in their SDF 2.0 library. See Alex Feinman's post here.