Hour 13. Performance and Debugging

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Tuning application startup

• Measuring and tuning your application

• Working with asynchronous and background tasks

• Tuning Silverlight performance

Windows Phone 7 is a different kind of device. It is for people on the go, allowing them to get in, get out, and get back to their lives. When building your application, you should keep this in mind. Nothing will do more to diminish the user experience of your application than having an app that is perceived to not perform well. Performance is really just as much a matter of perception as it is of reality. When your application is first started, it creates a first impression. Having the perception of an application that starts ...

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