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Device Independent Units to Points to Inches

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5 Nov 2009CPOL2 min read 38.9K   9  
The default unit of measurement in Windows Forms was pixels. This worked well when most monitors on the market used a simple 96 pixel per inch measurement, but measuring by pixel causes problems when working with devices that have different resolutions.

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