Windows 7 SIlverlight TV 47: Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Performance Tips

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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.

He covers several topics including these:

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

Relevant links:

• John's blog and on Twitter (@john_papa)http://johnpapa.net/files/downloads/SLTV45Demo.ziphttp://johnpapa.net/files/downloads/SLTV45Demo.ziphttp://johnpapa.net/files/downloads/SLTV45Demo.zip
• Jeff's PerformanceProgressBar code
• Jeff's blog and on Twitter(@JeffWilcox)
• Jeff's Windows Phone 7 Tips
• John's Windows Phone 7 book

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