So many resolutions - Best way to support the most of them?

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juvi

Hello,

Which ways can you recommend to support the most of the resolutions known
from WM6.0?

176x220
240x240
240x320/320x240
240x400/440x240
320x320
480x480
640x480/480x640
480x800

Is it recommended to create separate projects for each resolution or to
support a whole resolution group in one project. If whole groups which are
recommended to support in one application ? (because it is really hard work
to expand or edit the windows forms designer code for each resolution!? -
maybe there is a better way)

Hope that there is a good solution for this resolution-problem...

thx
juvi
 
Hi,

juvi said:
Is it recommended to create separate projects for each resolution or to
support a whole resolution group in one project.
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If you are developing for .NET CF 2.0 or greater you should investigate the
built in docking and anchoring functionality. This combined with the form's
AutoScale property can solve a number of resolution/orientation related
issues by stretching controls as the form "grows" or "shrinks" etc.

For more advanced layouts you may need to combine this with logic within a
form's Resize event handler to hide/show or move controls around to maximise
the efficient use of space.

You could also investigate libraries such as the Orientation Aware Control
library (http://www.orientationaware.net/).

Hope this helps,
Christopher Fairbairn
 
As geometric modeling is not yet a reality on devices we have to make do with
conventional methods. This is a major problem with device app development and
I have *generally* one principle, design your forms to target the smallest
screen size that you'll need to support. So in this case 176x220.

There is a free orientation aware control (oac) that the p&p team created -
but the issue with this is you have to target each screen factor. Because of
this I usally make do with (my own geometric modeling approach) and anchoring
and docking as pointed out by Christopher using CF 2.0 and onwards.

See if this helps: there is a video link on this page which explains the oac.
http://simonrhart.blogspot.com/2007/05/smart-client-software-factory.html
 
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