Perf, Text Renderering and Designer hosting

There are three great articles from the Windows Forms team to read in the March issue of MSDN Magazine:

Winning Forms: Practical Tips For Boosting The Performance Of Windows Forms Apps
Milena Salman

Text Rendering: Build World-Ready Apps Using Complex Scripts In Windows Forms Controls
Miguel A. Lacouture

The Perfect Host: Create And Host Custom Designers With The .NET Framework 2.0
Dinesh Chandnani

Here's the overview of the tips from the performance article:

• Load fewer modules at startup
• Precompile assemblies using NGen
• Place strong-named assemblies in the GAC
• Avoid base address collisions
• Avoid blocking on the UI thread
• Perform lazy processing
• Populate controls more quickly
• Exercise more control over data binding
• Reduce repainting
• Use double buffering
• Manage memory usage
• Use reflection wisely

Comments

• Anonymous
  February 17, 2006
  I actually just read those last night... great reads!