High-performance Windows Store Apps

by Rasmussen, Brian

• ISBN13: 9780735682634
• ISBN10: 0735682631
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-05-05
• Publisher: Microsoft Press

Summary

Understand what every developer should know about performance when building Windows Store apps. Not designed as a comprehensive reference, this book instead zeroes in on the essentials of planning for great performance and provides a solid starting point for building fast apps.

This concise, performance-focused guide:

• Provides an introduction to the Windows platform from a performance point of view
• Describes how to set performance goals, establish tests to track performance, and covers tools to instrument code and analyze performance
• Explains why common techniques such as micro benchmarks and ad hoc testing often fall short in verifying performance
• Focuses on managed C#/XAML apps
• Although tools and techniques also apply to Visual Basic/XAML apps, all code examples use C#
• HTML5/JavaScript and C++/XAML are not covered

Author Biography

Brian Rasmussen is a program manager on the Windows Ecosystem team at Microsoft, where he helps partners and customers build high-performance apps for Windows. In his previous role, he helped build the next generation of compilers and language services for Visual C# and Visual Basic, and before joining Microsoft he was a Microsoft MVP for C#.