What is a good way to rotate a pixel array?

Question

Does the .NET framework provide a good way to rotate a pixel array? To be more clear, I am not just looking for a way to rotate an image. Instead I want to rotate the underlying pixel array that the image is/will be based on in such a way that I have access to the modified array. I would rather not implement a rotation algorithm or wrap another library if the .NET framework already provides a good way to do this. I need to be able to support any rotations, not merely 90/180/270/etc. rotations, which would be simple to implement.

I have thought about using one of the image classes that supports this type of rotation and accessing the modified array from it afterward. I am not sure if this is a good idea in the first place and also not sure which image class would be the best choice for this. So far I haven't had much luck finding a class or combination of classes that supports the rotations I need and enables access to the pixel array.

Update:

I'm starting to think I either asked the wrong question or asked the right question poorly. If I understand what Cosmin meant about using the Matrix class correctly, I don't think this will work for what I am actually trying to do. I'll try to do a better job of explaining my problem.

Basically, I have a 2D array of data and I want to rotate it. What I mean by this is that I want the values of the elements to be rotated to the appropriate elements based on the rotation.

For example:

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|A|A|A|A|A|
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|B|B|B|B|B|
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|C|C|C|C|C|
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If I were to rotate this array around the center element by 90 degrees counterclockwise, I should end up with something like this:

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| |A|B|C| |
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| |A|B|C| |
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| |A|B|C| |
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Unfortunately, I have to support any rotation, not just 90 degree rotations, which means a more complicated rotation algorithm is needed, since the rotated element indexes won't always be integers and may overlap as well. This seems like a problem that has probably been solved in the field of computer graphics, which led to me ask the question the way I did.

Answer 1

Yes, you can use the Matrix class: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.drawing2d.matrix.aspx