Microsoft Surface & WPF

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I have WPF application work with 1024x768 screen resolution, now I want to run this application on Microsoft Surface with wide resolution, I had make new windows with resolution 1366x768, but unfortunately I can't make it work fine on Surface, I tested it on my laptop, it's work 100%, but I don't understand why it would't work in the same way on Surface.

If there is anyone that has experience with Surface can you please help?

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When I run the WPF windows with resolution 1920x1080 work full screen on my laptop, but the problem is when run application on Surface with the same resolution don't fit the full screen, see this screenshot to more clarity:

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functionality work, but it's not run fully screen on 1366x768 resolution, some parts of window not appear, hope this clear — YoMo, Mar 08 '14 at 11:24
The Surface resolution is 1366x720 according to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Surface — Michael Phillips, Mar 08 '14 at 11:26
It is but that isn't what you asked. You need to be a lot more specific in your question. — Michael Phillips, Mar 08 '14 at 11:31
"Can't make it work fine" doesn't give us any idea of what the problem is. What did you expect it to do, and what did it do instead? Why do you think the problem has anything to do with the Surface Pro, rather than being a simple screen-resolution issue? — Joe White, Mar 08 '14 at 12:25

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

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Maybe your surface and laptop have different DPI settings. See here how to handle that problem.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

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answered Mar 09 '14 at 09:59

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 08 '14 at 12:19

From the information provided it may be that your WPF window layout doesn't sufficiently take into account differences in Display text and item sizing on different devices.

On both your Surface Pro and your laptop:

Select "Screen Resolution" from the Desktop context menu.
Select "Make text and other items larger or smaller" from the Screen Resolution window.
Check the position of the "Change the size of all items" slider.

By default the Surface Pro is set to Larger. A new Windows 8 install will be set to Smaller.

The slider from (3) sets the DPI. – Danny Varod Mar 09 '14 at 10:10 — Danny Varod, Mar 09 '14 at 10:10

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 09 '14 at 10:09

In WPF you should not be setting a constant window size, instead you should:

Make the window's content react to the window size by using auto sizes and grids instead of constant sizes and panels
You can use WindowState="Maximized" to make the window full screen

You can prevent your window from being reduced too much with minwidth and minheight.

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