Apr
16
I spent a little of time with some people over at AMD the other day, looking at ways to better utilize the video card using WPF. A useful little chunk that came from that was using the Freeze method on UI elements that are being manipulated. This tells the video card to use the texture … Continue reading »
Sep
06
We’ve all seen it. Lower your resolution to 800×600? The application’s UI is giant, hard to navigate, and ugly. Bring it up to 1920×1200? Now, you can’t see it. Here’s an easy way to make your application’s content size relative to your window’s size (which will lead it to size independently of the resolution or … Continue reading »
Oct
27
Multithreading using WPF is a little tricky at first (I’m planning a more thorough post on that later), but the basic thing you need to know is that you can’t access WPF elements outside of the UI thread, because they aren’t thread safe. There are some things you can do to speed loading up, however. … Continue reading »
Sep
18
A bit is the difference between true and false So when working on this blog sometimes I spend a little too much time getting code together. I’m sure I’ll get better, faster, and care less about what it looks like over time. Until then, I’ll use these ‘Just a Bit’ posts. The idea being that … Continue reading »
