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Originally Posted by awx
Another big improvement in Wpf 4.0 is that it respects the ClearType settings from Windows, which previous versions ignored.
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Yeah, the native WPF text rendering stack did everything to preserve glyph outlines, even at the cost of readability. Now they've just added the GDI+ way of doing it, with text snapping to the pixel grid. And then ClearType can do it's job properly.
It's what I've been waiting for (and a great deal of other people, too). WPF was so awesome before (XAML FTW), but I could never justify using it because of the text rendering issues. It just makes me cringe. I still remember VS 2010 beta1 coming out and the uproar over the text editor now being effectively unusable. I personally uninstalled beta1 three minutes after seeing for myself just how horrible the text looked like.
But now I'll be switching from Windows Forms to WPF for my C# projects wherever possible.