Visual Studio & 4K

[nbrege]

This is not specifically a VB.Net question, more of a VS question. Does anyone here use a 4K monitor for programming? Yesterday I replaced my old monitor with a new 4K monitor. It looks & works beautifully with everything but Visual Studio. By default Windows 11 has set the scaling to 150%. In VS this messes with the forms designer & I can't create forms to the size that I want. VS suggests setting the scaling for VS to 100%. It even provides a link to do so. This fixes the forms sizing issue but then the code text is less sharp, almost fuzzy looking. I am not happy with either situation. Just wondering if anyone has figured out how to not have the scaling issue with forms & still have sharp text.

This is a quote from a Microsoft support page:

When you open a form in Windows Forms Designer on an HDPI monitor, Visual Studio displays an info bar that displays the monitor's current scaling percentage (for example, 150%/144 DPI), an option to restart Visual Studio at 100% scaling to match Windows Forms Designer, and further information. Restarting at 100% scaling makes VS DPI-unaware, allowing for proper rendering without overlap.

and also...

When Visual Studio runs as DPI-unaware, the designer layout issues are resolved, however fonts might appear blurry and issues can appear in other designers such as the XAML Designer. Visual Studio displays a different informational message when DPI-unaware that says "Visual Studio is running as a DPI-unaware process. WPF and XAML designers might not display correctly."

Thanks for any help...

[dday9]

Yeah, I have the same issue. What's worse is that if you do not rescale it, when you go to click somewhere either in the designer or in a code file it doesn't select the thing I'm trying to select.

[nbrege]

So have you done anything to resolve the issue?

[dday9]

Nope, commented to explain that I have the same issue and for me to subscribe to the thread in case someone else has the resolution.

[nbrege]

Ok, no problem. I guess I'll also wait for someone smarter than me to post a solution. For now, I guess I'll have to aclimate to fuzzy text...

[dbasnett]

What if you have two monitors with different resolutions?

[nbrege]

What if you have two monitors with different resolutions?

I have not tried that, so I'm not sure how it would work, but my plan is to have only 1 monitor for now...

[dday9]

If it helps any, I discovered that the issue only presents itself when you have something that uses a designer file.

For example, if you're working in an ASP.NET MVC project it will not prompt you to resize nor will the text be blurry but if you're working a Windows Form Application -or- a legacy Web Form project then it will prompt you to resize.