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I've got a Surface Pro and I actually run the Win32/Desktop release of Chrome without scaling. What legacy app do you think won't work well? I'll be glad to tr

by WayneDB 13y ago

I've got a Surface Pro and I actually run the Win32/Desktop release of Chrome without scaling. What legacy app do you think won't work well? I'll be glad to try it out. Everything I've thrown at it so far has worked great. Even the desktop apps work well with touch or the pen.

seanmcdirmid 13y ago
Visual Studio :)
- WayneDB 13y ago
  Visual Studio (2012) is one of the first things I installed and it works great. Some other desktop apps I have installed: VLC Media Player, Notepad++ and Balsamiq Mockups. All work well but you are forced to use the pen (or type cover/touchpad) at times to grab little drag handles (if you're trying just to use touch).
  - seanmcdirmid 13y ago
    Does Visual Studio upscale automatically according to your DPI setting or do you have to fiddle with the font settings? Also, is it possible to increase the font size for the menu fonts? I'm genuinely curious.
    - Encosia 13y ago
      I didn't change any settings in Visual Studio after installing on my Surface Pro and everything looks fine to me. I'm embarrassed to admit that I really haven't peeked into what's going on with the DPI settings (because how it came out of the box has been perfectly fine for 99% of what I've been running on it), but I believe it's set at 150% DPI and VS respects that throughout.
      - seanmcdirmid 13y ago
        Nice! I've been wanting to know if Visual studio was resolution independent or not. Being implemented in WPF, this was always a possibility, but I could find no evidence on the web.