The "What do you think of how my app looks" thread

[chris128]

Nice I like the simple icons on the top right and that logon screen looks nice too. One thing I would suggest that you might not be aware of if you are new to WPF (and this only applies if you are targetting .NET 4.0). To make the text less blurry you can set the following property on each TextBlock element:

<TextBlock Text="Some Text" TextOptions.TextFormattingMode="Display">

or you can use a Style to apply this to all TextBlock elements in the window, like so:

<Window.Resources>
        <Style TargetType="TextBlock">
            <Setter Property="TextOptions.TextFormattingMode" Value="Display" />
        </Style>
</Window.Resources>

and for Images you can use the following to make them a bit sharper (note that if your images are not the same size on your window as the actual image file is then this may make them appear a bit pixelated):

<Image Source="example" RenderOptions.BitmapScalingMode="NearestNeighbor">

When testing these properties, never rely on the VS designer to give you an accurate representation of what the images/text will actually look like - run the program and see what it really looks like. The VS WPF designer is pretty poor in my opinion, it often displays things quite differently to how they actually look when you run the application.