dpi awareness

  1. News

    Improving the high-DPI experience in GDI based Desktop Apps

    In recent years, High-DPI displays have become common. Having a lot more pixels to display your application on seems like a simple recipe for crisper graphics but, counterintuitively, the opposite is often the case. Many applications were written without taking the DPI of displays into account...
  2. News

    High-DPI Scaling Improvements for Desktop Applications in the Windows 10 Creators Update

    In the previous blog post about High-dots-per-inch (DPI) scaling improvements, we talk about how desktop applications can be blurry or sized incorrectly when run on high-DPI displays. This is especially noticeable when docking and undocking or when using remoting technologies such as Remote...
  3. News

    Building DPI Aware Visual Studio Extensions

    Are you build Visual Studio extensions? Will you do me a favor? Please consider your user's DPI. My primary machine runs at 3K (2880x1620) and since my eyes are old, the DPI is at 200%. If you're not running a High DPI machine you may be wondering what's the problem? If you are, like Scott...
Back
Top