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Tuesday, November 25, 2008 3:12 PM

What is the Silverlight Font?

Saw this forum post , and thought it worthwhile to send out an FYI to the rest of the world: In Silverlight 1.0, we use Lucida as the default font. For Silverlight 2 apps, we created a world-friendly font, called the Portable UI font (PUI!), which uses
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008 1:27 PM

Silverlight Tip of the Day, some tips from the Silverlight perf talk

Mike Snow posted a few of the tips from my PDC talk here, it's a great summary. You can check it out here . Cheers! Seema
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Friday, November 07, 2008 6:15 PM

Getting to the Media FastPath

Earlier this week, us in the Silverlight perf and media teams reviewed Ben Waggoner's tutorial on how to build fast media players, check it out here: http://on10.net/blogs/benwagg/Building-high-performance-Silverlight-Media-Players/ Tis a great how to
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Friday, November 07, 2008 5:39 PM

EnableFramerateCounter, Setting your Framerate correctly

Debug tool I posted about EnableFramerateCounter before -- it is a simple little debugging setting that you can use when trying to figure out: Which of these designs hurts my framerate more? If I add this module in, does it hurt my framerate? To figure
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Monday, November 03, 2008 11:57 AM

PDC: Deep Dive into building an optimized graphics-intensive SL app

Thank you everyone for attending. For those who could not make it, you can check out my talk here on channel9 , it was PC06: In this deep dive session we pull the covers off of the layout, rendering, and media pipelines to discuss how things work and
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