Daniel Billingsley
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Daniel Billingsley
asked on 27 Jul 2010, 03:03 PM
I'm asking for practical experience and advice from those of you that have set windowless mode in order to use this control. Have you actually noticed any differences, and if so what?
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Hi Daniel,
The articles bellow throw more light on the pros and cons of setting windowless to true.
Limitations of Windowless mode for Silverlight
Silverlight Performance Tip: WindowLess is an Anomaly
The rule of thumb is - if you don't need it, don't use it.
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Kiril Stanoev
the Telerik team
The articles bellow throw more light on the pros and cons of setting windowless to true.
Limitations of Windowless mode for Silverlight
Silverlight Performance Tip: WindowLess is an Anomaly
The rule of thumb is - if you don't need it, don't use it.
Kind regards,
Kiril Stanoev
the Telerik team
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answered on 30 Jul 2010, 01:37 PM
Yeah, I've read all those articles.
The question is more for opinions on what "if you don't need it" means.
Say I have a desired feature that would be easy to implement with the HtmlPlaceHolder. Should I try to find another way to do it, and only resort to this if there's absolutely no other way and the feature is an absolute requirement? Or is Windowless not that big a deal in real life?
The question is more for opinions on what "if you don't need it" means.
Say I have a desired feature that would be easy to implement with the HtmlPlaceHolder. Should I try to find another way to do it, and only resort to this if there's absolutely no other way and the feature is an absolute requirement? Or is Windowless not that big a deal in real life?
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Hello Daniel,
Well, basically depends on the type and size of the application. If you application uses animation extensively then Windowless mode is not recommended since it will cause a performance penalty. For smaller applications, Windowless is fine. One tip I'd like to give here is: If you want to display a local HTML page in RadHtmlPlaceholder (i.e. use the HtmlSource property) then it is better to use our RichTextBox control instead of HtmlPlaceholder, since RichTextBox does not require Windowless. However, if you display an external page (i.e. you are setting the SourceUrl to some external url like http://www.google.com) then you should be using the HtmlPlaceholder since the RichTextBox does not support external pages.
I'd also like to hear of anyone else's feedback.
Kind regards,
Kiril Stanoev
the Telerik team
Well, basically depends on the type and size of the application. If you application uses animation extensively then Windowless mode is not recommended since it will cause a performance penalty. For smaller applications, Windowless is fine. One tip I'd like to give here is: If you want to display a local HTML page in RadHtmlPlaceholder (i.e. use the HtmlSource property) then it is better to use our RichTextBox control instead of HtmlPlaceholder, since RichTextBox does not require Windowless. However, if you display an external page (i.e. you are setting the SourceUrl to some external url like http://www.google.com) then you should be using the HtmlPlaceholder since the RichTextBox does not support external pages.
I'd also like to hear of anyone else's feedback.
Kind regards,
Kiril Stanoev
the Telerik team
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