Silverlight TV 57: Performance Tuning Your Apps

The Discussion

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  Mike Cook is great. I want to see more of this guy!

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  What about out-of-browser applications? Are we able to profile those using Visual Studio 2010?

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  Yes you can.  For out-of-browser applications instead of profiling iexplore.exe you'll need to profile sllauncher.exe (mine is located at "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Silverlight\sllauncher.exe").  Instead of passing the .html page as a command line argument, you'll pass the out-of-browser token for the application (this is the name of the folder your .exe lives in under "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Silverlight\OutOfBrowser") followed by the "/debug" switch.  So when you're finished it'll end up looking something like so:

  • What is the path to the full executable?
    • C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Silverlight\sllauncher.exe

  • Command line arguements: 
    • 3800347859.testapp /debug

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  great

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  I used Mike's technique to adress a memory leak in the heap. All my Outstanding memory allocations, when I drill down the Stack, end up to Wow64SystemServiceEx.
  I use a WCF service in my application, is that what this points to?

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  i want to dowload Silverlight but got lose along the instructions.

   

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  @OlivierGauthier: If you post a question with more detailed information about the stack in the Silverlight Performance Forum we can try to help you out.

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  Hey Mike, if that's your laptop this is a shoutout to a fellow SC II player!  I noticed that icon down in your task bar haha!  Excellent tutorial and set of demos.  Thanks.