February 2007 - Posts

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Dispatch It by aelij

In WPF, like most UI frameworks, UI elements can only be updated from the thread they were created on. If you do background work, and want to affect the UI from a different thread, you'll have to dispatch it. The Dispatcher class has a CheckAccess() method...
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BitmapEffect Begone by aelij

You can do really neat things with Bitmap Effects in WPF. Shadow, Bevel, Outer Glow can all have a great impact on how your application looks. But you should be aware that they don't come cheap. They are rendered in software , which yields very poor performance...
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Give me back my ClearType by aelij

WPF has a separate ClearType rendering system, which is better than GDI's (mostly because it also does y-direction antialiasing; read more here and in the WPF Text Blog .) However, there are some situations in which WPF cannot use ClearType, and has to...
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