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Application performance is a hot topic, and for good reason. User Experience is hugely important, but if your app is slow then everything degrades, including UX. In this episode, John talks to the Silverlight teams Mike Cook who shares several techniques that help tune Silverlight applications. With performance, its all about knowing what tools to use and how to use them. Mike covers these topics and focuses on: CPU Profiling in Visual Studio 2010 Memory Analysis
o VMMap - 30,000 ft view of app memory
o WinDbg + SOS Debug Extension - Managed memory analysis
o XPerf Heap Instrumentation - Native memory analysis You can find all of the links for the tools and information on how to use them in the relevant links listed below. Relevant links: http://johnpapa.net/ Johns blog and on Twitter ( http://twitter.com/john_papa @john_papa ) http://blogs.msdn.com/b/slperf/ Silverlight Performance Blog http://forums.silverlight.net/forums/67.aspx Silverlight Performance Forum http://blogs.msdn.com/b/profiler/ Visual Studio Profiler Blog http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd535533.aspx VMMap http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx WinDbg http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb190764.aspx SOS http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/performance/cc825801.aspx Xperf (Windows Performance Toolkit) Follow us on Twitter <a title="Follow SilverlightTV at Twitter http://www.twitter.com/SilverlightTV @SilverlightTV or on the web at http://silverlight.tv/ http://silverlight.tv <img src="http://m.webtrends.com/dcs1wotjh10000w0irc493s0e_6x1g/njs.gif?dcssip=channel9.msdn.com&dcsuri=http://channel9.msdn.com/Feeds/RSS&WT.dl=0&WT.entryid=Entry:RSSView:8cca920cc2094d7bbc679e67015deb2c
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o VMMap - 30,000 ft view of app memory
o WinDbg + SOS Debug Extension - Managed memory analysis
o XPerf Heap Instrumentation - Native memory analysis You can find all of the links for the tools and information on how to use them in the relevant links listed below. Relevant links: http://johnpapa.net/ Johns blog and on Twitter ( http://twitter.com/john_papa @john_papa ) http://blogs.msdn.com/b/slperf/ Silverlight Performance Blog http://forums.silverlight.net/forums/67.aspx Silverlight Performance Forum http://blogs.msdn.com/b/profiler/ Visual Studio Profiler Blog http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd535533.aspx VMMap http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx WinDbg http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb190764.aspx SOS http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/performance/cc825801.aspx Xperf (Windows Performance Toolkit) Follow us on Twitter <a title="Follow SilverlightTV at Twitter http://www.twitter.com/SilverlightTV @SilverlightTV or on the web at http://silverlight.tv/ http://silverlight.tv <img src="http://m.webtrends.com/dcs1wotjh10000w0irc493s0e_6x1g/njs.gif?dcssip=channel9.msdn.com&dcsuri=http://channel9.msdn.com/Feeds/RSS&WT.dl=0&WT.entryid=Entry:RSSView:8cca920cc2094d7bbc679e67015deb2c
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