Comments for Windows Phone http://www.winphone.ca Windows Phone 7 News Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:32:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on High Performance Progress Bar for Windows Phone by Jan Slodicka http://www.winphone.ca/articles/progress-bar/#comment-6 Jan Slodicka Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:32:04 +0000 http://www.winphone.ca/?p=217#comment-6 Bad performance of the standard ProgressBar is primarily caused by using Storyboard mechanism. Storyboard animations run on the high priority render thread and use up approx. 50% of the CPU resources. This cannot be solved and Wilcox's solution handles just some less important problems of the ProgressBar implementation. In fact, the only good (I mean from the performance point of view) solution has to avoid using Storyboard animations and use timer-based animations instead. See <a href="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/showcase/WP7-Animations.aspx" title="Windows Phone 7 Animations" rel="nofollow"> for more info - benchmarks, algorithms etc. Bad performance of the standard ProgressBar is primarily caused by using Storyboard mechanism. Storyboard animations run on the high priority render thread and use up approx. 50% of the CPU resources. This cannot be solved and Wilcox’s solution handles just some less important problems of the ProgressBar implementation. In fact, the only good (I mean from the performance point of view) solution has to avoid using Storyboard animations and use timer-based animations instead.

See for more info – benchmarks, algorithms etc.

]]> Comment on Windows Phone Developer Tools January 2011 Update by Paula http://www.winphone.ca/articles/january-2011-update/#comment-1 Paula Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:28:23 +0000 http://www.winphone.ca/?p=214#comment-1 Windows Phone 7 developer tools update today! Copy and paste and a few other interesting items... head on over to App Hub to download! Windows Phone 7 developer tools update today! Copy and paste and a few other interesting items… head on over to App Hub to download!

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