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Instructions for profiling Silverlight (Desktop) with VS2010 RTM
Maxim Goldin, from the VSTS team, has an excellent post on how to profile Silverlight 4 desktop with...
Date: 04/28/2010
Going to Vegas with my Phone...
For those wondering my current project is, I can finally talk about it! I'll be speaking at Mix,...
Date: 03/05/2010
Tips for creating massive amounts of shapes
I am often asked how to reduce the creation time for a massive number of shapes. Try a few things:...
Date: 05/28/2009
Video of "Deep Dive into SL Graphics" is posted
The video for my talk on graphics is now posted, with slides: https://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/T17F...
Date: 03/28/2009
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...
Date: 03/24/2009
See you in Vegas!
Headed to Vegas tomorrow for Mix09. If you join us at The Venetian, either in person or online,...
Date: 03/16/2009
Published the Source code for Silverlight 2 Runtime & SDK Controls
Hi all, We’ve just published the sample source code for the Silverlight 2 Controls as shipped in the...
Date: 01/07/2009
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...
Date: 11/25/2008
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...
Date: 11/25/2008
Getting to the Media FastPath
Earlier this week, us in the Silverlight perf and media teams reviewed Ben Waggoner's tutorial on...
Date: 11/07/2008
EnableFramerateCounter, Setting your Framerate correctly
Debug toolI posted about EnableFramerateCounter before -- it is a simple little debugging setting...
Date: 11/07/2008
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...
Date: 11/03/2008
We Shipped! See you at the PDC!
We shipped Silverlight 2! Hurrah! We made a push to fix several perf improvements throughout the...
Date: 10/21/2008
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...
Date: 10/07/2007
Macintosh & Silverlight perf...
I met recently with two designers trying to figure out "what was Silverlight doing under the covers?...
Date: 10/02/2007
See you at Remix Boston!
Weather has turned dreary in Seattle already, I'm headed to Boston for a bit of warmth and to see...
Date: 10/02/2007
Silverlight: A few thoughts on minimizing CPU usage
The first two suggestions will have the most drastic improvement on the performance of your...
Date: 08/09/2007
HW Acceleration of Layered Windows - Good news!
Good news! A QFE has been released to enable WPF HW acceleration on layered windows on XP:...
Date: 07/02/2007
a vista simulator in WPF/E?
This is very sweet... click on the button on the left https://www.vista.si/main.htm (I don't know...
Date: 02/01/2007
Feb CTP for WPF/E is here!
The most recent CTP for WPF/E on the Windows and Mac are now live. Check out the details on Mike's...
Date: 02/01/2007
A Chat with WPF experts and other news...
Our wonderful platform evangelist, Tim Sneath, has organized an event to talk to the WPF experts. I...
Date: 12/18/2006
“Why do my bitmaps look blurry?” by Anthony Hodsdon & Miles Cohen
Guest Writers: Anthony & Miles are Developers on the WPF 2D Graphics team. Anthony specializes...
Date: 11/07/2006
On some monitors, it seems that thin WPF lines are blurred across two pixels instead of one. Ick. How do I get sharply rendered lines?
Rectangle Without Pixel snapping With Pixel Snapping An anti-aliased rectangle zoomed in on...
Date: 10/31/2006
Layered windows...SW is sometimes faster than HW
Previously, I had posted that Avalon’s layered windows on XP will be rendered via the software...
Date: 10/25/2006
After animating text, the text seems to pause for 1 second and then render more sharply than before. Why is that?
In all 4 images, we see anti-aliased, sub-pixel positioned, ClearType text. The rendering on the...
Date: 10/20/2006
HW Acceleration of Layered Windows for RTM
To obtain GPU-accelerated rendering, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) normally renders and...
Date: 09/18/2006
Avalon Hardware Acceleration & Video Driver Compat
Hello. Seema Ramchandani here, PM of the Avalon 2d & 3D graphics team. Many people have asked me...
Date: 06/05/2006