Windows GDI+ provides the Metafile class so that you can record and display metafiles. A metafile, also called a vector image, is an image that is stored as a sequence of drawing commands and settings. The commands and settings recorded in a Metafile object can be stored in memory or saved to a file or stream. GDI+ can record metafiles in the EMF and EMF+ formats, but not in the WMF format.