One of the biggest performance changes for developers using Silverlight in Mango (WP 7.5) is off-thread input for ListBox. In a nutshell this basically means that all any flick or pan a user makes on a ListBox is handled by a dedicated thread, the Direct...

In an earlier post we looked at how we can gain broad insight into an application scenario’s memory characteristics and how the graph and markers drew our attention to ranges of execution for further analyses. Recall that in the memory leak diagnosis...

The Windows Phone Browser team has a goal of delivering the best web browsing experience on a smartphone. This goal has many components within our team: from the UI of the browser , compatibility with a wide array of website layouts, and of course buttery...