Clarify UIElement.RasterizationScale semantics and XamlRoot relationship - #130
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[WIP] Add documentation for UIElement.RasterizationScale property
Clarify UIElement.RasterizationScale semantics and XamlRoot relationship
Jul 23, 2026
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UIElement.RasterizationScaledid not explain its intended use, which made it easy to misread as the current display scale. This update clarifies that it is an element-level rendering override and distinguishes it fromXamlRoot.RasterizationScale.Documentation clarity
UIElement.RasterizationScaleis an extra scale factor you set for rendering an element's content.Behavior and defaults
1.0: no extra per-element rasterization scaling is applied unless requested.Relationship to
XamlRoot.RasterizationScaleXamlRoot.RasterizationScaleis the read-only source for the XAML tree's current view-to-physical-pixel scale.UIElement.RasterizationScaleis an additional per-element multiplier layered on top of that environment scale.Example of the distinction: