Windows Phone: Developer Best Practices and How to Maximize Performance Stefan Wick Principal Test Manager Windows Phone Developer Platform 2-126

Agenda Performance Quality Reach

Performance Memory Image memory optimizations Leak detection Execution Screen redraw optimizations Scrolling performance Tools Store test kit Memory profiler Performance counters Debug properties

Demo Maximizing performance. Focus on: Optimizing memory usage. Reducing CPU/Battery usage. Increasing scrolling performance.

Quality Unit Testing Other Tips New support in VS 2012 Update 2. For managed and native code. Test more configurations in less time. Other Tips Beta testing. App test plan.

Demo Phone unit testing. Focus on: Integration into VS 2012. Practical examples.

Reach Devices International Support mid-tier segment. Optimizing memory is critical. International Globalization. Localization.  Multilingual App Toolkit.

Demo Localization/Globalization Focus on: Tools support Finding international bugs early

Reach Versions: Upgrade to 8.0 for best experience. Maintain 7.1 version for max reach. Share the code base, manage differences.

Demo Versioning. Focus on: Upgrade to 8.0. Code sharing between 7.1 and 8.0 apps.

Recap Unit tests in place for regression control. Memory/performance improved. App ready for mid-tier devices. App ready for the world. App ready for Windows Phone 8.

Recap Your ratings and reviews after this talk. “Works great as advertised. Smooth and reliable. Only thing missing is feature xyz…” “Thanks for localizing to my native language.” “Runs great now on my new Lumia 521.”

Resources Multilingual App Toolkit: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?linkid=245767 Windows Phone Toolkit: https://nuget.org/packages/WPtoolkit/

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