Previously, I had posted that Avalon’s layered windows on XP will be rendered via the software pipeline. One can create a layered window by setting Window.AllowsTransparency="true". I’ve seen a few forum posts about performance issues, and the key takeaway...

Rectangle Without Pixel snapping With Pixel Snapping An anti-aliased rectangle zoomed in on Magnifier: WPF offers a way to get sharp lines and keep anti-aliasing, by auto-magically aligning the horizontal and vertical...

In all 4 images, we see anti-aliased, sub-pixel positioned, ClearType text. The rendering on the right column is pixel snapped, which sends the glyphs through a refined codepath by Mikhail Lyapunov for rendering the final text in an extremely polished...