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Create DPI-aware and resolution-aware WPF applications

In this article i will analyze two techniques that can help you on writing a DPI-aware application and how to scale it properly. There are two common scenarios which force you to make your application to scale to fit the screen: Different resolution Different DPI In fact it’s very common ...

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WPF touch-friendly controls for resistive touch-screen

While it’s fairly common, when working in automation field, to make software that runs on resistive touch-screens, I admit that it’s not a trivial task to make a good user experience, especially with a desktop technology like WPF and C#. In this article I posted some of the problems that ...

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Snap7: an open source Siemens S7 communication library

In a recent comment i came across Snap7, a new Siemens S7 open source library to communicate with Siemens Plc S7-300, S7-400, S7-1200 and S7-1500. It supports many languages (C++, C# and more) and it’s multi-platform. The library can be downloaded from http://snap7.sourceforge.net and the official page of the project ...

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