WPF allows developers to build highly interactive UIs, enabling users to browse large data sets displayed in charts using hardware-accelerated panning and zooming. However, when you’re building UIs featuring charts, your users will often request to have annotations displayed together with quantitative data. Even though the fast charting component XamDataChart (available both in Silverlight and WPF), doesn’t at this…

The XAML platform allows us to deliver controls offering much richer interaction and flexibility when compared against Windows Forms. However, the many complex controls and elaborate themes, can increase the initial start up time in WPF applications, demanding specific attention to ensuring that users don’t have to wait when opening a form. One way to improve initial loading time of forms is to preload complex controls…