The VMWare Workstation had a problem with Visual Studio 2010 rendering (in fact all WPF apps were affected) when the hardware graphic acceleration was turned on. But since version 7.1 this is no longer true.
Recently I updated my virtual machine (VMWare Workstation 7.1 + new VMWare Tools + turning graphic acceleration on) with Visual Studio 2010 and the rendering is correct. Finally I’ll enjoy the graphic card accelerated machine and lighten up CPU.
I remember from old times that I was using some plug-in into Delphi IDE to set tab order by clicking on components in order you wanted the ordering to be. Today I was reviewing the tab ordering in ID3 renamer as somebody reported in forum it’s wrong. I was scared doing all the work through Properties window in Visual Studio.
But it turned out, that Visual Studio has this tool in the box. You can find the description here. You’ll simply select form, go to View > Tab Order and click on different controls to change the ordering. You see the numbers directly in designer and go through possible options by clicking.
Pretty nice, don’t you think?
Vista mi jaksi vypíná grafika-3D-cosi (zajímavé, že to začalo zlobit až po instalaci systému s integrovaným SP1). Takže se minimalizace okna, scrollování nebo třeba Alt-Tab trošku zasekávalo. Hlavně Alt-Tab mě štvalo, protože trvalo relativně dlouho, než se zobrazilo. Po dlouhé snaze vyřešit to systémově, jsem přešel na “programátorské” řešení.
Vzal jsem první WPF sample s pěknou 3D animací a udělal z toho aplikaci, bez tlačítka na taskbaru. A překvapivě to skvěle funguje. Aplikace mi běží na pozadí a jsem spokojenej.
Zde je vidět desktop s běžící aplikací:
