Tips for Improving Performance in Applications Built with Silverlight (Channel 9)

In its fifth version, Silverlight enables developers and designers to work together to build more impressive and complex applications than ever before, but with great power comes great responsibility. Come learn the tricks to keeping your Silverlight applications smooth and responsive and the tools to light your way should you find yourself in trouble.

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Kevin Barmish

Apr 14, 2011 at 4:39 PM quote reply

Awesome presentation!
Maxix

Apr 15, 2011 at 1:50 AM quote reply

Thank you for this presentation.
Adrian

Apr 16, 2011 at 10:55 AM quote reply

Hi Mike,

This is great! Awesome presentation. Will we be seeing the project uploaded somewhere?

Thanks,
Adrian
koolraaga

Apr 17, 2011 at 9:26 AM quote reply

Good Starting point for Novices to Learn about Profiling Silverlight Apps and identifying some performance bottlenecks.
Thanks for a good presentation.

KRK
DoctorATAT Omnia Mea Mecum Porto :Latin "All that I am I carry with me."

Apr 17, 2011 at 10:02 PM quote reply
MikeCook Silverlight Performance

Apr 18, 2011 at 11:42 AM quote reply

@Adrian: Glad you liked the presentation! I've uploaded the solution and attached it to the blog post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/slperf/archive/2011/04/15/silverlight-performance-mix-11.aspx
Nate

Apr 20, 2011 at 7:24 PM quote reply

Mike,

Great video. Quick question. You said that sample analyzing was available in VS2010 Pro and Premium. Is this right? I thought it was just Premium and Ultimate (I have Pro, yet can't find any trace of the "Analyze" menu option). Thanks.
ShawnZhang

Apr 21, 2011 at 10:56 PM quote reply

very good for this video
Mark Gould

Apr 22, 2011 at 3:39 PM quote reply

Thanks for the great presentation, Mike. Lots of good info!
bahamut

Apr 27, 2011 at 4:55 AM quote reply

nice! lots of tips and tools to optimize silverlight apps
mundane

Apr 27, 2011 at 5:47 PM quote reply

Not something big but one of those swung-on-and-missed things when the ball was sitting on a tee. Supposedly on a tee. Still missed it. Dervish style. Kewl subject, though; bang-command non-GUI things always stirs the blood for the GUI-lazified types (see point, below).

c:\Program Files\tools>heapmonitor

c:\Program Files\tools>/* Self compiling batch file... 2>nul
Microsoft (R) Visual C# 2005 Compiler version 8.00.50727.4927
for Microsoft (R) Windows (R) 2005 Framework version 2.0.50727
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 2001-2005. All rights reserved.

error CS2001: Source file 'c:\Program' could not be found
error CS2001: Source file 'Files\tools\HeapMonitor.cmd' could not be found
fatal error CS2008: No inputs specified

c:\Program Files\tools>xperf.exe

Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Performance Analyzer Version 4.8.7701
Performance Analyzer Command Line
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Usage: xperf options ...

xperf -help view for xperfview, the graphical user interface
xperf -help start for logger start options
xperf -help providers for known tracing flags
xperf -help stackwalk for stack walking options
xperf -help stop for logger stop options
xperf -help merge for merge multiple trace files
xperf -help processing for trace processing options
xperf -help symbols for symbol decoding configuration
xperf -help query for query options
xperf -help mark for mark and mark-flush
xperf -help format for time and timespan formats on the command line
xperf -help profiles for profile options