Performance tips for large lists

[Erik]

I have a jump panel right now that has anywhere from 1000-6000 items. Each item have about 4-5 controls. (Stack panels, images, text). I've found that saving state with this many controls is noticeably delayed. 1-5 seconds. I have tested this on a Samsung Focus and a Lumia 900. You don't really see it on the emulator because, we'll it's pretty darn fast. But on the phone moving from page to page, or resuming from tombstone is slow at times.

Is there a way to make state/tombstoning just ignore the requests so it doesn't try to remember where all 10K controls are? This obviously breaks some standards and can break the UI. I am still curious on thoughts about this.

[Deyan]

Hi Erik,

Thanks for writing and for your questions.

Based on the details you are sharing I am not quite sure that I correctly understand the case. Normally, you do not have to store information about where your controls are etc. In the general scenario when an application is thombstoned you should store application state information like user input, the current page of the app at the time of thombstoning, the scrolling position of listboxes and so on.

Can you please share some further details so that we can make sure that we correctly understand the case and thus be able to further assist you?

Thanks for your time.

Greetings,
Deyan
the Telerik team

[Erik]

We can close this thread, I think the issue is there is a first chance exception being thrown on session state load which slowed down my emulator because the list had over 5K entries. 

After some code clean up, it is now relatively speedy.