February 2010
Beginner
400 pages
11h 13m
English
Content preview from Introducing .NET 4.0: with Visual Studio 2010
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15.16. Performance
Microsoft has been hard at work tweaking Silverlight 3.0's performance. Let's look at what has changed.
15.16.1. Binary XML Support
Silverlight 3.0 has support for Binary XML, allowing you to communicate with WCF binary XML endpoints. The Binary XML format is much smaller than regular XML and results in less data being transferred over the network and ultimately better performance for your applications.
15.16.2. Enhanced Deep Zoom Performance
Deep Zoom is now much quicker than ever before (not that it was slow before).
15.16.3. Improved XAP Compression
XAP files are now compressed more efficiently, and Microsoft says you should see a 10 to 30 percent decrease in size compared with previous versions.