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The DSUI Team Blog

This is the team blog for the User Interface team in Microsoft Developer Support. We handle support for native and managed User Interface and Graphics technologies.

System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException with WPF application in Visual Studio 2015

I recently had a customer report that sample WPF code from the Chapter 10: Resources chapter of the...

Date: 08/13/2015

Using Theme APIs to draw the border of a control

In this article, we will take a look at using the Theme APIs to draw the border of a control using...

Date: 06/26/2013

Printing from a Windows Service

It is often desirable to print a document to a printer from your Windows service. While calling the...

Date: 06/24/2013

Debugging a GDI Resource Leak

One of the most common graphics-related problems we see is a “GDI leak” (or, simply the...

Date: 04/23/2013

Using Direct2D from a service in C#

It is often desirable to create graphical images on disk from a service context. For example, some...

Date: 04/16/2013

Ways to capture the screen

Capturing the screen (or put another way, creating an in-memory copy of the image currently being...

Date: 03/25/2013

Troubleshooting CreateWindowEx failures

Several years back, my team was handling multiple issues where Windows Forms application would throw...

Date: 11/05/2012

Welcome to the DSUI Team Blog

Hi All, Thanks for dropping by. We are the User Interface team from Microsoft Developer Support. We...

Date: 10/03/2012