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

[weirddemon]

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">

Hey Chris,

Yeah, I'm fairly new to WPF. As for the blur, do you mean the blur while the log in form is displayed? Because that was intentional. I noticed how you used it in one of your apps and like how it looked when a dialog when is displayed. I currently have the blur Radius set to 5, but that can always be changed.