How to fix blurry fonts on high DPI in windows form application?

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Hi All,

I've created a desktop application in Visual Studio 2010 (.Net framework 3.5). When I run this application on my machine having resolution 1920 * 1080, it runs fine.
Now when I run this application on another machine having resolution 3200 * 1800, the fonts get blurred.

Based on the article here, I made my application "DPI aware".

Also, I’ve made the below changes for the main form:

C#

this.AutoScaleDimensions = new System.Drawing.SizeF(96F, 96F);
this.AutoScaleMode = System.Windows.Forms.AutoScaleMode.Dpi;

What I have tried:

After making these changes, it runs fine on my machine having resolution 1920 * 1080. On the high resolution machine, the fonts look good but the size of all the controls on this form changed.

Can someone please help?

Thanks in advance!

Posted 9-Oct-15 0:14am

Komal Mangal

Updated 29-Nov-16 6:20am

KarstenK

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CHill60 9-Oct-15 6:40am

Wouldn't it make sense to ask the question of the author of the "article" ?(read "Solution to a post on a rival site")

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webmaster442 · Answer 1 · 2015-10-10T08:35:00

Solution 1

try

C#

this.AutoScaleMode = System.Windows.Forms.AutoScaleMode.Font;

High resolutions & windows forms are not the best combo. Conscider moving your application to WPF.

Posted 10-Oct-15 8:35am

webmaster442