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Sudeep
Sudeep

Reputation: 37

Is there a performance hit for a Silverlight application while implementing MVVM pattern using Databinding?

I am implementing the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern in one of the forms of my SL2 appication using INotifyPropertyChanged interface and TwoWay Databinding.

However I feel that due to this approach, my form behaves slightly sluggishly.

I just wanted to know whether using this approach is there any performance hit in such SL2 applications.

Thanks... Sudeep

Upvotes: 2

Views: 920

Answers (4)

Braulio
Braulio

Reputation: 1728

Check as well in which places you need two way binding in which other just one time binding.

Upvotes: 0

James Cadd
James Cadd

Reputation: 12216

We do a lot of MVVM with Prism and haven't noticed a performance hit. Quite the opposite - the app often demos faster than it's low-tech Windows counterpart.

Upvotes: 1

Brian Genisio
Brian Genisio

Reputation: 48127

I have not noticed any slowdown. We are doing a LOT of binding to INotifyPropertyChanged ViewModels and the UI seems to be extremely responsive.

Sure, there will be a hit for data binding vs direct data access... but that hit is so small that the benefit you get from data binding makes the small hit inconsequential.

Something to remember: The data binding is happening in the UI. There isn't a lot of high intensity processing happening at that layer. In addition, the UI renders on a separate thread. Those two things together make for an experience that feels very responsive, in my opinion.

Erik asked if you have any Value Converters in place? I would ask the same thing. If so, are they doing a lot of work? In my experience with MVVM, value converters are rarely needed anymore. Just some food for thought.

Upvotes: 3

Erik Mork
Erik Mork

Reputation: 1443

I haven't noticed any slowdown. The Prism Reference Implementation, among many others, seems to be fast.

In fact, the binding system uses dependency properties. Just like the animation system. Part of the reason is that the values can be updated quickly by the framework.

Do you have any Value Converters in place?

Upvotes: 2

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