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Monday, April 24, 2006 7:25 PM

USER & GDI Compatibility in Windows Vista, wrapup

This content will make it into the master compatibility document in the next month or so, but in the meantime, wanted to create a single URL to point to all the different posts: Part 1 -- Painting issues part 2 -- Performance part 3 -- High dpi part 4
Posted by nkramer | 4 Comments
Tuesday, April 18, 2006 3:49 AM

USER & GDI Compat, part 5 -- Miscellaneous

The fifth and final installment... NetDDE -- For security reasons/reduction of attack area, Windows Vista does not support NetDDE. (NetDDE was disabled by default on Windows XP SP 2 and Windows Server 2003.) Regular DDE is still supported. NetDDE is a
Posted by nkramer | 7 Comments
Saturday, April 15, 2006 1:54 AM

USER & GDI Compat, part 4 -- Cross-process and security

As an added layer of defense against malicious software, Windows Vista introduces allows different UI applications to run with three different levels of UI privilege. Applications can freely interact with other applications of the same and lower permission,
Posted by nkramer | 7 Comments
Wednesday, April 12, 2006 2:46 AM

USER & GDI Compat, part 3 -- High dpi

Pixel sizes have been roughly constant for a long time, but LCD manufacturers are increasingly coming out with monitors with smaller and smaller pixels, aka high dots per inch (dpi). If an application uses the same number of pixels on a high dpi screen
Posted by nkramer | 5 Comments
Friday, April 07, 2006 10:59 PM

USER & GDI Compat, part 2 -- Performance

Thanks for the comments on the last post, here's part 2 of roughly 5. We think most applications will run as fast or faster on Windows Vista, but there are some changes we want to keep an eye on. Please be on the lookout for: Overall GDI drawing performance
Posted by nkramer | 7 Comments
Tuesday, April 04, 2006 1:45 AM

USER & GDI Compatibility in Windows Vista (part 1)

So mostly I blog about WPF, which is where I’ve spent most of my time the last few years. But I also work on USER and GDI, along with many full-time USER & GDI'ers, and wanted to spend a little time talking about compatibility. We put a lot of effort
Posted by nkramer | 13 Comments
 
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