Checking in at 30,000ft

Well I can confirm that GoGoInflight, VPN and TFS are working fine together – just did my first code check in while flying!  Unfortunately I am flying to Chicago rather than England thanks to the Icelandic Volcano… Oh well, while my plans have changed I think I’ve got it lucky compared to many.

Just been looking through the performance of my Silverlight app – drop shadows are still a real killer, they appear to spend an inordinate amount of time rendering the drop shadows of text that will be obscured completely by the rectangle on which it sits.  I’ve ended up doing a lot of fake shadows and written a component that does this using embedded borders with semi transparent fill.  It looks good and the performance is much better.

I’ve also spent a while looking at my flip control – the performance was getting very poor when the sides were full of complex objects – guess there’s no surprise there – so I’ve modified it to take an image of both sides during the flip and it’s back to smooth as silk no matter what I’m turning over.

I’ll extract the code for those two components into a separate project and post up here shortly, in case anyone needs that kind of functionality.