tips on developing resolution independent application

Question

Is it a good practice to find the workarea measurement and set some properties in code so that it could be bound to Control\'s margin or height/Width properties in xaml?

Answer 1

going with what mr JacobJ did I made my own spinoff. I made a Interface on wich we base change

public interface IResolutionDecorator
{
    double ActualWidth { get; }
    double ActualHeight { get; }
    double ResolutionHeight { get; set; }
    double ResolutionWidth { get; set; }
    object CurentContent { get; }
}

and for this Interface i have extension

    #region IResolutionDecorator
    private static double OnCoerceScaleValue(double value)
    {
        return double.IsNaN(value) ? 1d : Math.Max(0.1, value);
    }

    public static void UpdateScale(this IResolutionDecorator source)
    {
        if (source.CurentContent is Visual visual)
        {
            double yScale = source.ActualHeight / source.ResolutionHeight;
            double xScale = source.ActualWidth / source.ResolutionWidth;
            double value = Math.Min(xScale, yScale);
            double ScaleValue = (double)OnCoerceScaleValue(value);
            visual.SetValue(Grid.LayoutTransformProperty, new ScaleTransform(ScaleValue, ScaleValue, 0, 0));
        }
    }
    #endregion

now we only need add Parameters that we lack in main window and set this.UpdateScale() in event sizeChanged in main grid

public partial class MainWindow : Window,  IResolutionDecorator
{
    public MainWindow()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        this.Height = ResolutionHeight;
        this.Width = ResolutionWidth;
    }
    #region IResolutionDecorator
    public object CurentContent { get{ return this.Content; } }
    public double ResolutionHeight { get; set; } = 400d;
    public double ResolutionWidth { get; set; } = 800d;
    #endregion

    private void MainGrid_SizeChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        this.UpdateScale();
    }
}