DPI-aware NetCF v1 apps

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.NetCF 2.0 has great support for hi-dpi devices, but v1 does not have anything built in. Luckily, it's not that hard to add hi-dpi support to Forms-based apps. Just add a call to DpiHelper.AdjustAllControls(this); to the end of your form's constructor. And if you do any manual drawing, you can use DpiHelper.Scale() to convert hard-coded pixel constants from 96dpi to the dpi of the device.

/// <summary>A helper object to adjust the sizes of controls based on the DPI.</summary>
public class DpiHelper
{
/// <summary>The real dpi of the device.</summary>
private static int dpi = SafeNativeMethods.GetDeviceCaps(IntPtr.Zero, /*LOGPIXELSX*/88);

        /// <summary>Adjust the sizes of controls to account for the DPI of the device.</summary>
/// <param name="parent">The parent node of the tree of controls to adjust.</param>
public static void AdjustAllControls(Control parent)
{
if (dpi == 96)
return;
foreach (Control child in parent.Controls)
{
AdjustControl(child);
AdjustAllControls(child);
}
}

        public static void AdjustControl(Control control)
{
control.Bounds = new Rectangle(
control.Left * dpi / 96,
control.Top * dpi / 96,
control.Width * dpi / 96,
control.Height * dpi / 96 );
}

        /// <summary>Scale a coordinate to account for the dpi.</summary>
/// <param name="x">The number of pixels at 96dpi.</param>
public static int Scale(int x)
{
return x * dpi / 96;
}

        private class SafeNativeMethods
{
[DllImport("coredll.dll")]
static internal extern int GetDeviceCaps(IntPtr hdc, int nIndex);
}
}

- Jason Fuller