Silverlight Performance Tip: WindowLess is an Anomaly

Once again, ol’ Masykur reminded me of something in this comment: that I could boost the performance by setting “windowless” to false.

I did try this option before deploying, but it caused the right-click menu not to appear. And that is something that I don’t want to happen.

But I’m curious about this windowless thingy, since my feeling says that it’s strangely slower when set to false.

Before you see the results, let me reiterate something when you’re doing Performance Tweaking:

Always test with your OWN application. What works elsewhere may not apply to your own app.

So here’s screenshots showing the anomaly… the general performance tip does not apply to Zinius ePaper:

WindowLess set to FALSE:

windowlessFalse

 

WindowLess set to TRUE:

windowlessTrue

 

Strange isn’t it… well, the Silverlight Team is free to ping me for source codes and live demo of this anomaly :)

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Published Monday, January 11, 2010 2:57 PM by zeddy

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# re: Silverlight Performance Tip: WindowLess is an Anomaly

Monday, January 11, 2010 11:06 PM by cahnom

Z,

Here is my test result on my PC.

I'm using Fiddler to intercept HTML response to change windowless setting before render it on browser.

windowless=true: http://z.pe/Nst

windowless=false: http://z.pe/OtO

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