WPF Text Blog
A blog on WinFX: Windows Presentation Foundation text and flow layout.
Blind Comparison VS2008 vs. VS2010
The text clarity improvements in WPF4 bring WPFs text rendering to near GDI compatibility. Below is...
Date: 04/13/2010
VS2010 & .Net4 Released!
Yesterday we released VS2010 and .Net4. Now everyone can try out the new features that I have...
Date: 04/13/2010
Additional WPF Text Clarity Improvements
During each milestone of WPF4, we have been working to improve our text rendering. WPF4 Beta2...
Date: 03/05/2010
Visual Studio 2010 Crash On StartUp
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */...
Date: 03/01/2010
ClearTypeHint
ClearType text filtering relies heavily on alpha blending (overview of ClearType). This algorithm...
Date: 01/14/2010
WPF Text Measurement Units
The WPF text team has seen some people get confused about what units WPF uses when measuring text....
Date: 12/11/2009
Custom Dictionaries
Most current editors provide built in spell checking which validates user input. Spell checkers can...
Date: 10/02/2009
Bindable Run
Since the initial release of WPF, Run.Text has been a normal CLR property. This has meant that...
Date: 09/01/2009
Caret Brush
WPF provides extensive customizability to app authors, allowing them to change the default look and...
Date: 08/31/2009
Selection Brush
The default visual appearance of most objects in WPF can be easily tweaked, if not swapped out for a...
Date: 08/28/2009
Layout Rounding
WPF’s layout engine frequently gives elements sub-pixel positions. Antialiasing algorithms cause...
Date: 08/27/2009
WPF 4.0 Text Stack Improvements
Please note that the screenshots in this post are not displaying correctly. To view them in their...
Date: 08/24/2009
Back to WPF Text Blog
Since DirectWrite will now be using a different blog, the name of this blog will return to WPF Text...
Date: 08/21/2009
DirectWrite blog posts moving to the DirectX blog
In order to consolidate information from various blogs about the DirectX family of APIs, we have...
Date: 07/16/2009
New WPF 4.0 Features
WPF 4.0 Beta1 was released last month. While many exciting features were included in Beat1, there...
Date: 06/24/2009
DirectWrite Questions and Answers
Hi, my name is Mikhail Leonov, and I’m a Senior Software Development Engineer on the DirectWrite...
Date: 04/13/2009
DirectWrite beta documentation
There is now DirectWrite content in MSDN as part of the Win7 beta documentation. ...
Date: 01/15/2009
DirectWrite
Hello – my name is Sriram Subramanian and I am a Senior Program Manager on Windows 7 for text. ...
Date: 12/11/2008
WPF Text Clarity Doc
I have posted a doc about: problems inherent to rendering small text, how WPF tackles these...
Date: 08/18/2008
New Blog Admin
Hi, my name is Chipalo, and I am a program manager on WPF. Unfortunately, Chris is no longer with...
Date: 07/18/2008
WPF TypeCon Workshop Material
Thanks to all who attended TypeCon's Fonts and Typography in WPF workshop. We had a great time...
Date: 08/06/2007
Job opening in the Windows text team
Hi everyone, our team is seeking a strong developer to help us design and deliver world-class text...
Date: 06/12/2007
Microsoft Surface
Unrelated to text, but extremely cool... Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates once talked about putting a...
Date: 05/30/2007
Silverlight Times Reader on a Mac
You may have seen people on the subway or bus reading the New York Times on a tablet PC. You might...
Date: 05/16/2007
The Art, Science, and Business of Killer Content Experiences MIX Session
I hope some of you who are attending MIX were able to attend this talk this morning. If not, here's...
Date: 05/01/2007
WPF font selection model
Hi,my name is Mikhail Leonov, I'm a developer on the WPF Text team. WPF introduces a new font...
Date: 04/23/2007
Fortes is back.
Fil Fortes has restarted blogging on WPF flow & text topics. Lots of good posts including a...
Date: 03/30/2007
.NET 3.0 available in XP optional software update
.NET 3.0 is now available in XP SP2 as an optional windows software update, probably the quickest...
Date: 02/05/2007
Tim's Intro to Great WPF apps
Tim Sneath has just started an 'Intro to great WPF apps' series starting with the British Library's...
Date: 01/30/2007
Dot Net Solution's WPF Wikipedia Explorer
Dot Net Solutions created a fun Wikipedia explorer app that takes Wikipedia content and displays it...
Date: 01/08/2007
Text as a decorative element
Lorin on our SDK team just posted a great sample on how to use FormattedText to create fun...
Date: 01/02/2007
Sample Font Chooser
[ Reposting, as this entry got deleted accidentally. Aplogies if you've seen this before! ] One...
Date: 10/31/2006
After animating text, the text seems to pause for 1 second and then render more sharply than before. Why is that?
If you've ever wondered why this happens Seema, a program manager on the WPF team, wrote a great...
Date: 10/20/2006
Tips for improving your WPF text rendering experience
WPF uses the latest version of ClearType to render text. This version of ClearType has a few new...
Date: 10/18/2006
NYTimes launches Times Reader Beta program
The Times Reader Beta is out! You can get it here. Wired wrote an article reviewing it as did Slate....
Date: 09/19/2006
MSDN TV Demo Part 2: Using an interactive animating object sitting in 3D space as the foreground for your text
The demo I showed on the MSDN TV segment used an animating star sitting in 3D space as the...
Date: 08/14/2006
Font Families and Friendly Names
Hi, my name is Niklas Borson and I'm a developer on the WPF Text team. I'm going to write today...
Date: 07/10/2006
Pure XAML Font Chooser
Hi, My name is Norris, and I’m the test lead on the WPF Text team. Our team is responsible for...
Date: 06/19/2006
Demos from the TechEd WPF Rich Content talk
I just gave a talk at TechEd in Boston on Creating Rich Content Experiences in WPF (DEV326), for...
Date: 06/14/2006
Quick Tour of WPF Text Architecture
WPF Text Hi, my name is Worachai Chaoweeraprasit (or “Chai” for short – I assure you, it doesn’t...
Date: 06/05/2006
MSDN TV Demo Part 1 Continued: Creating an Easy and Enjoyable Reading Experience in WPF
Hi world! I’ve grabbed hold of Chris Han’s blogging coattails and will be posting some info about...
Date: 05/22/2006
MSDN TV Demo Part 1: Creating an OpenType menu in WPF
Hi, my name is Chris Han, I’m the program manager in Windows Presentation Foundation working on text...
Date: 05/06/2006
New York Times 'Times Reader' built on WPF
Something we've been really excited about in the WPF team is our partnership with New York Times and...
Date: 05/01/2006
Welcome!
Welcome to the text blog! We decided to start this blog for several reasons: to show you a lot of...
Date: 03/07/2006