Concurrency and Responsive UIs

Fewer standalone apps actually stand alone these days. Most rely upon some distributed processes, which can make the UI unresponsive. Joe Duffy’s article, Application Responsiveness, details some scenarios that can cause UI sluggishness, and how the CLR, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and Windows all work to mitigate these problems. He also takes a look at features that will be included in Vista to help maintain responsive UIs.

For more on WPF: Jeroen Ritmeijer recently posted some of his initial impressions in getting started with the WPF on Dotnetjunkies.

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