The DSUI Team Blog
This is the team blog for the User Interface team in Microsoft Developer Support. We handle support for native and managed User Interface and Graphics technologies.
System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException with WPF application in Visual Studio 2015
I recently had a customer report that sample WPF code from the Chapter 10: Resources chapter of the...
Date: 08/13/2015
Using Theme APIs to draw the border of a control
In this article, we will take a look at using the Theme APIs to draw the border of a control using...
Date: 06/26/2013
Printing from a Windows Service
It is often desirable to print a document to a printer from your Windows service. While calling the...
Date: 06/24/2013
Debugging a GDI Resource Leak
One of the most common graphics-related problems we see is a “GDI leak” (or, simply the...
Date: 04/23/2013
Using Direct2D from a service in C#
It is often desirable to create graphical images on disk from a service context. For example, some...
Date: 04/16/2013
Ways to capture the screen
Capturing the screen (or put another way, creating an in-memory copy of the image currently being...
Date: 03/25/2013
Troubleshooting CreateWindowEx failures
Several years back, my team was handling multiple issues where Windows Forms application would throw...
Date: 11/05/2012
Welcome to the DSUI Team Blog
Hi All, Thanks for dropping by. We are the User Interface team from Microsoft Developer Support. We...
Date: 10/03/2012