Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Performance Tips

This week on Silverlight TV: Performance is always a critical topic in development, especially when it comes to a mobile device. Jeff Wilcox shares several performance tips and dives deep into how he made the ProgressBar perform even better. Jeff retemplated the ProgressBar control via a style and made it very simple to apply to all instance in a project. Jeff and John also discuss the roles of the compositor thread and the UI thread on Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight.

Jeff covers several topics including these:

Flying pigs
3 steps to apply the ProgressBar performance enhancements
UI thread and the Compositor thread
Cross thread issues
Styling the progress bar
Converters

Relevant links:

John's blog and on Twitter (@john_papa)
Jeff's PerformanceProgressBar code
Jeff's blog and on Twitter(@JeffWilcox)
Jeff's Windows Phone 7 Tips
John's Windows Phone 7 book