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
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