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SIlverlight TV 47: Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Performance Tips

Posted: Sep 30, 2010 at 9:00 AM
By: John Papa
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Performance is always a critical topic in development, especially when it comes to a mobile device. Jeff Wilcox shares several performance tips and dives deep into how he made the ProgressBar perform even better. Jeff retemplated the ProgressBar control via a style and made it very simple to apply to all instance in a project. Jeff and John also discuss the roles of the compositor thread and the UI thread on Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight.

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Flying pigs
3 steps to apply the ProgressBar performance enhancements
UI thread and the Compositor thread
Cross thread issues
Styling the progress bar
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Catto

Sep 30, 2010 at 12:28 PM

Hey Now John,

Another Great Show!

Thx 4 the info,
Catto
shaggygi

Sep 30, 2010 at 4:16 PM

Good video. Do you plan on adding this to the 2nd version out-of-box? Thx.
Jeff Wilcox

Sep 30, 2010 at 9:51 PM

@shaggygi,
I hope so!
silvercrux.com SilverCrux.com

Sep 30, 2010 at 11:00 PM

Great Show! I listened you on Yet another podcast that you have backlogs of SilverlightTV episodes. All I can say is keep them coming out sooner
Ian2 In geeks we trust ...

Oct 02, 2010 at 4:10 AM

Timely episode with some great advice. Thanks.

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