Windows FOrms fonts look jagged in compiled application - winforms

This always happens to me but I'm at a loss to work out why.
Here is my designer
here is the actual form
look at the W in the heading on each. See how it's all jagged in the second? WHy is that?
I've tried changing AutoSizeMode to Font (I've got it off at hte moment) but it didnt seem to make any difference.

Is ClearType turned on?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows7/make-text-easier-to-read-using-cleartype
Edit: You can tune the ClearType settings (Look at the link above)

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Select Box in IE7 (UI)

I observed that in IE7, the select box's drop down looks incomplete (see image 1).
But when you hover it, the drop down box show-up completely (see image 2).
How can i make it look like image 2 as default. Also, if i increase the size of select box (height: 25px) and the text size is only 9px, how can i ensure that the text is in the middle? I've tried adjusting the padding and margin of the select box with no avail.
Thank you.
That's what drop-down boxes look like when you have the Windows Aero theme enabled. It's totally normal and standard. In fact, it's what Windows users expect to see. I don't recommend changing it just because you think it looks weird. Your users won't think so. All the other webpages they look at, as well as all of the apps on their computer, work exactly the same way.
And no, you can't trivially change the appearance. You'll have to write custom styling for the entire drop-down box control. And that's pretty difficult to do in Internet Explorer compared to other browsers, if it's even possible to get it to work correctly at all.
As for your second question: why would you be increasing the height of the drop-down box? The default height is the one you want. It automatically sizes itself to fit the size of the text it displays. It doesn't need to be any bigger than that, and if you force it to be bigger, it'll look ugly like you said.
Read more this issue fixing click here,
and yet more examples demo page

Downloaded Panorama background image is cropped to screen size

If I set the Panorama.Background image brush source to a URL of a photo out on the internet, the image is centered and cropped, rather than starting at the left edge and bleeding off the screen to the right, widescreen style.
If I set the source as a local pack URI, its fine.
Smells like a bug.
Anyone got a simple workaround? Microsoft should be equipping us with a working SDK that allows us to create experiences at least as good as the phone's hubs.
Thanks!
UPDATE
The problem appears not to be images on the web, but images that are smaller than the screen size of the phone - all my web-hosted images are quite small for bandwidth reasons.
Taking my original background art 1024x768 and halving its size results in the phone cropping the right edge of the image.
UPDATE 2
Found someone else with the same problem:
http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/p/78770/615061.aspx
UPDATE 3
http://www.lukepuplett.com/2012/05/windows-phone-panorama-background-image.html
Side-by-side images demonstrate the bug, clearly. I'll throw it over to Cliff on the team in Redmond and see what he thinks.
It's a problem I've found since my earliest days with the phone, and I assumed it'd be quite a well-known issue. So I expected people to quickly say "Oh yeah, that old chestnut, you need to do XYZ."
Thanks for the -3, everyone. Keep up the good work.
Before running around with "IT'S A BUG!" claims, I would do my research.
That being said, you are downloading an image, and most likely using a combo of BitmapImage/ImageBrush. Now, ImageBrush has a Stretch property and that is where you have to look.
The panorama background is intended to be a rich, high quality image.
I would expect what you're seeing ("inconsistent" resizing) if you're using an image smaller than the space you're filling and not specifying how it should be stretched.
If you're claiming a bug, what is the behaviour you're expecting?
Based on your blog post (liked in update 3) it seems you're expecting a different default stretch behaviour for an image when used in the background in a panorama. As a general rule, introducing inconsistencies or conditional defaults is likely to introduce more confusion and work in the long run.

Silverlight and ClearType: just won't do

I am desperately trying to improve the visuals of my Silverlight application, but it won't work.
No matter what I do, I always get grayscale antialiasing, while I would like to get the standard Windows 7 full-color ClearType antialiasing. If I zoom in, this is clearly visible.
I am currently doing it by setting the following properties:
TextOptions.TextHintingMode="Fixed"
TextOptions.TextRenderingMode="ClearType"
To check that they are applied, I tried to set the TextHintingMode to Animated, and it gets a lot worse. Same thing if I set TextRenderingMode to Aliased: I see that it changes too, so I am setting them in the right place. Unfortunately the final effect is ugly.
How can I turn ClearType on?? Using Silverlight 5.
Thanks!!

Bing maps two-way binding to Center property. Animation problem

There is an example of two-way binding to Center property from Micrsoft guys.
You can find it here.
Its sample works fine, but they disabled full animation. When I set AnimationLevel="Full" and use the Compass I get trembling picture.
I really like aminations effects and don't want to turn it off.
Are there any ways to get working Compass and keep full animation?
This is a known problem and as far as i know, it hasn't been fixed. I too would very much like it to be fixed.
When full animation is on and the map is moved, it will move the map in an arch (zooms out and then back in). However, small distance movements still use the arch and this creates the shaking.
I have searched extensively (4 months ago) for a good work around for this problem.
I didn't find anything other than turning off the full animation.

Creating "flippable" content in Silverlight

I'm currently trying to build my personal website with Silverlight 3 and I've got this idea that you should be able to flip through the content in a certain way. I haven't seen exactly what I wanted before, so I uploaded a screenshot of the design for you guys to get a better idea of what I'm talking about:
Picture of desired effect http://www.bo-mortensen.dk/bmdkflip.jpg
As you can see it's more or less a carousel on the X axis. I've seen a fair number of carousel tutorials, but it seems to be quite "complicated" for what I'm looking for.
My main problem is that I fail to understand how to make this thing dynamic. I can sure do the flipping animations, but when it comes to the best approach of making the bottom page (the mirrored one) the previous etc, I'm a bit lost :)
I'm looking for any good advice on how to make this dynamic in such a way that the only thing that needs to be changed is the content itself (text, pictures etc) Also, I believe that each page/usercontrol should be using the same two (flip up and flip down) animations, if that's possible at all?
Hope I made myself clear on this - it's late after all ;) If not, just let me know and I'll see if I can elaborate!
Looks like you are looking for a Flippable 3D control. So check out my blog for one and you can tweak it to make vertical rotation.
http://jobijoy.blogspot.com/2009/04/3d-flipper-control-using-silverlight-30.html

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