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By Jaliya Udagedara December 25, 2013
We use both Thread.Sleep() and Task.Delay() to suspend the execution of a program for some given time. But are we actually suspending the execution? What is the difference between these two? How to abort from a Sleeping thread or from a delaying task? Those are some of the questions I believe most of us have. Hopefully I am trying to answer all the questions above. Let’s go by an example. I have a very simple Windows Forms application which has the following form....
By mcosmin December 25, 2013
Windows phone has various media related classes which have proven to be very confusing for new developers. This article will try to shed some light on the matter and hopefully answer most questions beginners might have. But before that, we need to define some terminology. The media library is defined as the place where music, pictures and videos are stored in the phone. This is a special folder where apps only have limited access to. The isolated storage is that place where the app can save...
By Uwe Ricken December 23, 2013
The FILLFACTOR is a good option to avoid expensive page splits in an index. Unfortunately the usage of FILLFACTOR is most often handled like the usage of a water can - the same FILLFACTOR will be used for every index. Such a usage can lead to disadvantages when the given FILLFACTOR will leave space on the data page which will never be used again. This article will demonstrate the negative side effects to the...
By Dev Hedgehog December 23, 2013
Performance is a sensitive topic. The control works the way it works. I would like to show you in this article how to make a custom tree virtualizing panel and how to use it instead of VirtualizingStackPanel. Some of you might think right now why going this deep into WPF? To answer your question I wanted to show you guys that by creating a custom panel you can make TreeView virtualize, layout and scroll faster. The panel is the heart...
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