What’s New in Silverlight 5? – Performance and Other Improvements

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By Geming Leader On 18 May 2011 13:05:26

Tag : Silver Light and XAML , General

Skill Level: Intermediate

In this article, we’ll have a brief discussion of the performance, networking, and other improvements in Silverlight 5.

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Introduction

In this article, we’ll have a brief discussion of the performance, networking, and other improvements in Silverlight 5.

Performance

Performance has been improved in Silverlight 5 in a number of ways:

Significant improvement in performance through the entire product
Startup performance has been improved using a multi-core background JIT compiler
XAML parsing time has been improved especially for UserControl and ResourceDictionary
Added 64-bit runtime version. Not in beta
Hardware accelerated rendering in Internet Explorer 9 in windowless mode

Networking

And networking has its share of improvements:

Network latency has been improved significantly
90% performance improvements in ClientHttpWebRequest scenarios

Services

Added support for WS-Trust in WCF. (WS-Trust is a specification aimed to improve security and validation.)

Profiling and Testing

Automated UI testing
Improved profiling support:
- Memory
- CPU
- Thread contention

Other

Support for Windows Azure
In-Browser HTML support
Many more fixes and improvements throughout the product

Now, check out other What’s New in Silverlight 5? articles.

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Geming Leader

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Independent software developer, trainer, and technical writer from Egypt born in 1991


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