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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 6:26 PM

Summary of the 20min perf talk

The 20 minute talk is posted here . I spoke till the speaker timer started to flash at me (giant flashing clock), which resulted in having no time for a forum Q&A, but feel free to post your questions/comments down below. I'm always curious about
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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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Wednesday, October 08, 2008 9:59 PM

XPerf: A CPU Sampler for Silverlight

For those of you who are a) building graphics-intensive applications or b) trying to debug your performance, I would like to introduce xperf and xperfview. These are two profiling tools which can be used to analyze the performance of any Microsoft technology,
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Sunday, October 07, 2007 6:50 PM

Perf Debugging Tips: EnableRedrawRegions & a performance bug in VideoBrush

Was chatting with Andy Beaulieu at Remix Boston, and he was commenting that it seems that Silverlight only draws when needed -- it is true, we try to not waste your CPU cycles. For Perf debugging, a way to tell when you are causing a redraw is to turn
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007 1:15 PM

Macintosh & Silverlight perf...

I met recently with two designers trying to figure out "what was Silverlight doing under the covers? did I accidentally turn on some feature?" My first thought is to reference my post on how to minimize CPU usage. We have to learn how to conserve not
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Thursday, August 09, 2007 5:47 PM

Silverlight: A few thoughts on minimizing CPU usage

The first two suggestions will have the most drastic improvement on the performance of your Silverlight application, and can affect CPU usage, framerate, and application responsiveness. 1. IsWindowless=false is faster Do not turn on isWindowless unless
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