dpi-aware – Tarik Billa

Creating a DPI-Aware Application

February 8, 2023 by Tarik

EDIT: As of .NET 4.7, windows forms has improved support for High DPI. Read more about it on learn.microsoft.com It only works for Win 10 Creators Update and higher though, so it might not be feasible to use this yet depending on your user base. Difficult, but not impossible. Your best option is to move … Read more

How to configure an app to run correctly on a machine with a high DPI setting (e.g. 150%)?

December 25, 2022 by Tarik

Once you go past 100% (or 125% with the “XP-style DPI scaling” checkbox ticked), Windows by default takes over the scaling of your UI. It does so by having your app render its output to a bitmap and drawing that bitmap to the screen. The rescaling of that bitmap makes the text inevitably look fuzzy. … Read more