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  • Chris Jackson is an Architect and the Technical Lead for the Windows Application Experience SWAT Team.

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May 2006 - Posts

Creating Text Labels With a Drop Shadow Effect in Windows Forms
One great new feature in WinFX / Windows Presentation Foundation (Avalon) is the ability to render true drop shadows using the DropShadowBitmapEffect class . What do I mean by true shadows? It's relatively straightforward to simply render text twice onto Read More...
Posted: Friday, May 26, 2006 5:16 PM by Chris Jackson | 3 Comments
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GDI vs. GDI+ Text Rendering Performance
In my last post , I included the unverified claim, "I have heard (but I have not personally verified) that GDI font rendering is approximately 10x faster than GDI+ font rendering (1M glyphs / second vs. 100K glyphs / second). Of course, there is a reason Read More...
Posted: Friday, May 19, 2006 2:10 PM by Chris Jackson | 8 Comments
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Windows Forms Font Hinting with TextRenderingHint
After poking around the concepts of raster and vector images, I really wanted to dive a bit deeper into the most common form of vector image you will find today: fonts. Most of the fonts you run into today on a Windows system will be either True Type Read More...
Posted: Thursday, May 11, 2006 1:41 PM by Chris Jackson | 7 Comments
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