Microsoft Silverlight Performance on Windows Phone

Presented at TechEd Middle East 2011

Transcript

1. 8 – 10 March 2011 | Dubai, UAE
2. 2 Level 300 sessions cover advanced material and assume an in-depth understanding of features in a real-world environment, and strong coding skills. These sessions provide you with a detailed technical overview and real-life experiences of a subset of product or technology features, covering architecture, performance, migration, deployment, and development.
3. 8 – 10 March 2011 | Dubai, UAE Daron Yondem Chief Architect | DEVELOAD Software Microsof Regional Director Silverlight MVP Microsoft Silverlight Performance on Windows Phone SESSION CODE: WPH303
4. It’s made for performance!
5. Threading
6. UI THREAD Inputs Touch Layout Networking User Code PerFrame Callbacks
7. Render Thread (Composition Thread) Double Animations Render Transforms Perspective Transforms Rectangular Clips Opacity
8. Worker Threads User Code User Code User Code User Code User Code
9. EMULATOR! Love OR Hate?
10. EMULATOR! Uses GPU on PC More CPU than Device Requires DX10
11. USE THE DEVICE!!!!
12. PERFORMANCE COUNTERS
13. Application.Current.Host.Settings. EnableFrameRateCounter = true; Fillrate
14. Application.Current.Host.Settings.EnableRedrawRegions = true;
15. Application.Current.Host.Settings.EnableCacheVisualization = true;
16. Performance Strategy Minimize UI Thread Work Leverage Off-Thread Use the GPU Less is more!
17. CacheMode = BitmapCache PerFrameCallback
18. Visibility OR Opacity? De
19. JPEG or PNG? Faster Decoding Opacity
20. XAML or Pictures?
21. App Start-Up Delay Loading the Unneeded! Include applicationsplashscreen.jpg Use a splash screen
22. DON’T! Non-rectangular clips Large textures ( > 2K pixels either way) Not simple animations (e.g. ColorAnimation) Opacity mask
23. It’s made for performance!
24. Tips & Tricks Loading Large Images? HttpWebRequest instead of WebClient PerformanceProgressBar Minimize the Code in Constructors and Loaded Events Split across DLLs
25. 25 Related Content • Web Developers Community Chat Next!, 3.30pm, Yellow Theater 2
26. 8 – 10 March 2011 | Dubai, UAE Complete an evaluation on CommZone and enter to win an HP!
27. Daron Yondem daron@yondem.com http://daron.yondem.com THANKS! 8 – 10 March 2011 | Dubai, UAE All samples on my blog! Full Source Code!
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