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Posted Friday, November 02, 2007 6:47 PM by timothyc
This blog is no longer being updated or maintained, but it is archived for future use. Please direct all WPF performance inquires to the WPF forum: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=119&SiteID=1 Thanks, Tim Read More...
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Funny Windows Vista video staring yours truly

Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 9:00 PM by timothyc
Windows Vista is going to be available to the world on January 30th -- only 4 days away. Check out this short launch video we did a couple weeks back. We had a blast doing it -- it's a 50% ridiculous, 50% funny, and 100% excitement about the hands-down Read More...
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Comprehensive (& awesome) guide to WPF performance

Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 8:52 PM by timothyc
If you’re like the many folks who have asked us for a 'list of performance suggestions', your prayers have been answered. My colleague & friend Kiran Kumar , has partnered with the brilliant folks on our SDK team (Lorin in particular), to document Read More...
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The low-rent guide to WPF profiling

Posted Thursday, September 07, 2006 11:31 PM by timothyc
Since I posted my initial article on command-line profiling , I've found a number of folks copy/paste off of it fairly often, with moderate success. If you don't want to know all of the 'why's' and just want to get your profile, run the the following Read More...
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Optimizing 3D Collections in WPF

Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 10:59 PM by timothyc
Background Over the past few months we’ve been getting feedback that manipulating 3D collections can be slow. It turns out there is more that one way to skin a … collection (horse references omitted). In this article I profile many of the collection manipulation Read More...
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MSDN TV on WPF Performance

Posted Friday, July 28, 2006 6:49 PM by timothyc
My colleague Henry Hahn & I have recorded a primer on WPF performance for all to see. Available on MSDN TV as of yesterday, we discuss the approaches that we take when optimizing WPF applications. Make sure and check us out ! Read More...
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DevX on WPF graphics, performance, and Expression ID integration

Posted Thursday, June 22, 2006 9:02 PM by timothyc
A couple days ago, an article was posted on the DevX portal discussing WPF graphics & performance (my favorite two subjects). You can find it here here . Definitely worth a read, especially since Mr. Woodruff mentions this blog! It’s always really Read More...
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WPF Graphics Performance Q & A - Some explanations about WPF graphics architecture & overhead

Posted Friday, June 16, 2006 10:48 PM by timothyc
I’ve been getting a lot of the same performance questions over the last few months regarding the WPF graphics model, so I thought I’d post some responses for everyone to see. This should shed some light on what WPF does and doesn’t offer in terms of fast Read More...
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Performance improvements in WPF Beta2

Posted Thursday, June 08, 2006 2:24 AM by timothyc
Just in case you haven’t noticed, Beta2 of the Windows Presentation Foundation went live on 5/23. And since the February CTP, we’ve been doing tons of great performance work. Many scenarios, especially 3D applications & apps using 1000's of Shapes, Read More...
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Tieing up a few loose ends

Posted Thursday, May 04, 2006 4:03 AM by timothyc
I've 3 new tricks to add to a few of my earlier postings: 1. In my batch file for VSTS profiling I use sleep.exe. This isn't on a few of my machines, so you may not have it either. A quick web search shows this is part of the Windows Server 2003 resource Read More...
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Profiling kernel time in WPF

Posted Wednesday, April 26, 2006 12:30 AM by timothyc
I just found out something neat . VSTS tells you how many samples were taken in kernel mode. Unfortunately, it doesn’t tell you where in kernel mode that time was spent. But, it does tell you if you need to be thinking about kernel-mode time, which makes Read More...
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Want good performance? Start your own performance culture

Posted Thursday, April 13, 2006 9:00 PM by timothyc
Recently I’ve been reading up on Rico Mariani’s blog . What a gem! One especially profound article he’s posted talks about the challenges in promoting good performance culture. First-rate performance doesn’t happen by accident. Like having a solid feature Read More...
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Additional Performance Profilers

Posted Wednesday, April 05, 2006 8:14 PM by timothyc
I've gotten a few questions about other profiling tools to use when profiling WPF applications. I'm putting this on my 'things-to-do' list, but if anyone has experience with using other profilers against WPF, I'd love to hear about it. In the meantime Read More...
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What does WPF hardware acceleration get you?

Posted Wednesday, March 22, 2006 5:51 AM by timothyc
Pablo posted a great article over on his blog describing what a hardware-accelerated WPF means to your app. There's also a interesting overview of the various places you can hook into the WPF stack. Read More...
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Ideas for new WPF performance tools

Posted Saturday, March 18, 2006 8:21 AM by timothyc
Over in the forums a handful of folks have pointed out that profiling WPF is less than seemless, and can be super-frustrating. Even with profiles in-hand, sometimes there isn't a bunch non-WPFers can do without some guidance. One of my personal goals Read More...
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