Measure a String without using a Graphics object?

Question

I am using pixels as the unit for my font. In one place, I am performing a hit test to check if the user has clicked within the bounding rectangle of some text on screen. I

Answer 1

This may not be but a repeat of others, but my problem was the unwanted Graphics object as well. After listening to the above frustrations I simply tried:

Size proposedSize = new Size(int.MaxValue, int.MaxValue);
TextFormatFlags flags = TextFormatFlags.NoPadding;
Size ressize = TextRenderer.MeasureText(content, cardfont, proposedSize, flags);

(where 'content' is the string to measure and cardfont the font it is in)

... and was in luck. I could use the result to set the width of my column in VSTO.