SilverlightShow: Simulating rain in Silverlight Comments

RE: Simulating rain in Silverlight

lnikolov — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:30:23 GMT

Hi, thank you for your interest in the article.

The demo needs some optimization and I really appreciate your comments, they will definitely save me some effort. This article is part 1 from a series directed in simulating natural effects in Silverlight. The next one is meant to improve this one since it really needs some polishing while describing only a simple algorithm and being simple, in general, also implies imperfection.

RE: Simulating rain in Silverlight

Jeric — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:09:36 GMT

It seems there's a memory leak. The memory consumption just keeps going up while the silverlight page is open. :-S

RE: Simulating rain in Silverlight

Andy Beaulieu — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:36:36 GMT

Adding CacheMode="BitmapCache" to the drops, and EnableGPUAcceleration to the plug-in parameters, will leverage the GPU and should greatly increase performance.

RE: Simulating rain in Silverlight

Carsten — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:18:43 GMT

Hi,

IMHO the (rather poor) performance in this situation demands a solution without all those storyboards.

I think you can use a storyboard to get the real-time timer support and do the animation yourself.