Increase silverlight application speed

INCREASE YOUR SILVELRLIGHT/WCF SPEED

1.       Return only that much of DATA that is required.

2.       Don’t pass unnecessary parameter like if you just need employee id then don’t pass whole employee object to WCF service.

3.       Search method should return list of light object. Light object means –All object shouldn’t be filled up with all property otherwise it will make a huge data download and sometime exceeds the max data received limit. User can only see on object at time so when user select object from list then only load complete object.

4.       Don’t add property in your entity because of UI. For that always use converter to convert entity into whatever format you want.

XAML

1.       Don’t give name to all UI elements if not required.

2.       Use GRID instead of canvas/stackpanel to make your UI resolution free, if required then only use canvas and stackpanel

3.       Don’t give height and width of any control if not required.

4.       Don’t write property with default value like HorizontalAlignment=”Left”. If you don’t write this then also Silverlight will take this as default value.

5.       Use style instead of inline styling for better control

6.       Use animation to provide real time experience to users.