Archive for March, 2008
Friday, March 28th, 2008
Huge thanks to Ilmar Kruis for implementing GetDeviceCaps() in the Tao framework! With some small modifications I suggested, one can now easily develop DPI-aware OpenGL applications using C# or .NET in general! Thanks Ilmar!
I will update my article on the CodeProject about OpenGL windows in Vista soon!
See http://www.taoframework.com/
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
During the last days, I stubled across a very annoying feature of Vista very often: The resource exhaustion manager. It tells me to close Visual Studio and the Destop Window Manager. OK, shall I close the lid of the computer and go to sleep, too?
However, the stituation gets worse when ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
A new Prism drop has just been released! See Glenn Block's post here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/gblock/archive/2008/03/26/prism-drop-2.aspx
The direct link to the resource is
http://www.codeplex.com/prism/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=11976
Views are no longer added via AddViewToRegion(); rather, an IRegion can be requested and an Add method can be called to actually add the view.
Also, a sliding region has been added.
However, I ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Due to the very high resolution of my new laptop's display, I chose to increase its DPI so I could benefit from more readable text. Unfortunately, it turns out that there are still a number of problems:
o On 120 dpi, 11pt Segoe UI (Windows Vista's default UI font) will have ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Well, due to the hardware-hunger of some of the projects I am working on, it was certainly time for a new machine so I got myself a brand new ThinkPad T61p. Very nice indeed, with a crazy WUXGA display on just 15.4" - kewl! More pixels than you typically find on ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
As Glenn Block reports, the patterns & practices Team released a reference implementation of Prism on Wednesday:
http://www.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=prism&ReleaseId=11615
Very interesting read! While I'm still working with the 6267 release of prism, I'm gonna update my code and write about some experiences with it soon!
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