{"id":2333,"date":"2010-03-11T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/2010\/03\/11\/wpf-text-clarity-improvements\/"},"modified":"2022-10-17T11:41:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T18:41:17","slug":"wpf-text-clarity-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wpf-text-clarity-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"WPF Text Clarity Improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"

As most of you know, we\u2019ve rebuilt the editor and much of Visual Studio using WPF for Visual Studio 2010.\u00a0 This allows for a wealth of new visualizations and enables many new extensibility scenarios, often making previously impossible tasks possible and previously difficult tasks much easier.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the WPF text team<\/a> has been plagued with complaints of text blurriness in all WPF applications, including VS 2010.\u00a0 They\u2019ve been working hard to fix text rendering issues, and less than a week ago they announced additional WPF text clarity improvements<\/a> for WPF 4.0.\u00a0 These improvements are not <\/strong>in the VS 2010 RC but will be included in RTM, and they\u2019ll also benefit any application using the final release of WPF 4.<\/p>\n

Take a look at the following side-by-side comparison of the default Visual Studio color scheme in VS 2008, left, and an internal VS 2010 RTM build, right, using Consolas (originally published by the WPF text team<\/a> on their blog<\/a>).\u00a0 Can\u2019t tell the difference?\u00a0 That\u2019s the idea.\u00a0 If you compare your own installation of the VS 2010 RC against the VS 2010 RTM image, you should see a noticeable difference, and RTM should look crisper.<\/p>\n

[Note:\u00a0 Please click on the following screenshot to see the full-sized image.]<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The WPF team also received feedback that light text on a dark background was particularly problematic.\u00a0 To see the difference pre- and post-fix, check out this enlarged comparison of VS 2008, VS 2010 RC, and VS 2010 RTM (originally published by Scott Hanselman<\/a> on his blog<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Again, these changes are not specific to Visual Studio and will benefit any WPF 4 application.\u00a0 But because we\u2019ve had questions in this blog\u2019s comments<\/a> about the impact of this fix on other pieces of VS 2010 UI, here are a few \u201cbefore and after\u201d screenshots with side-by-side comparisons of the VS 2010 RC and a more recent internal VS 2010 RTM build*:<\/p>\n

Tool window tabs, horizontal:<\/p>\n

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Tool window tabs, vertical:<\/p>\n

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Extension Manager:<\/p>\n

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New Project Dialog:<\/p>\n

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For more images of the text editor, please take a look at the WPF text team<\/a>\u2019s original blog post<\/a> on this topic.\u00a0 To give feedback on these changes, feel free to leave a comment for WPF or e-mail their team directly via their blog\u2019s contact link<\/a>.\u00a0 And if you have any Visual Studio-specific questions, comments, concerns, etc., you can always leave a comment here.<\/p>\n

Brittany Behrens\nProgram Manager, Visual Studio Editor Team<\/p>\n

* Special thanks to Paul Harrington, author of the Visual Studio Blog<\/a>\u2019s WPF in Visual Studio 2010 series<\/a>, for the non-editor screenshots in this post.<\/p>\n

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\"clip_image002\"I\u2019m Brittany, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Editor team.\u00a0 Some of you may recognize me from Connect bugs<\/a> or as the main voice of @VSEditor on Twitter<\/a>, and I\u2019m responsible for a variety of Editor features.\u00a0 I love hearing from customers, so please let me know what you think!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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