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Windows Phone Jump List Contact Chooser Control
10 October 11 12:48 AM | Elad Shaham | 2 comment(s)

One of my favorite controls in my Windows Phone is the built in contacts chooser control. It groups all of my contacts by the first letter and shows them in order. Once you click a letter, it shows a list of the entire alphabet - every letter which has contacts can be clicked and the control scrolls down (or up) so the group is visible. This is in my opinion a user experience which really differentiates Windows Phone from competing platforms. You can see the jump list functionality in this video...

תגים:DEV, Windows Phone, Controls

Bad ViewBox, Bad ViewBox
05 January 11 08:05 AM | Elad Shaham | with no comments

This week I visited a client who had performance issues in a mature application. The problems were consisted of cpu overload, but also improper usage of some UI elements. The most obvious problem that immediately drew my attention was the massive usage of ViewBox objects. The client had over 40 ViewBoxes all over the solution, some of them being used more than once in a running application. So what is a ViewBox? The ViewBox is a very nice feature of WPf which can surround other UI elements and affects...

תגים:WPF, DEV, Controls, ViewBox