10 Reasons to Upgrade to the Windows Phone SDK 7.1: Listing 1.

Offloading images to a background thread

 with ImageSource.
<ListBoxItemsSource="{Binding Collection}" >
<ListBox.Resources>
<DataTemplate x:Key="ItemTemplate">
<StackPanel>
  <TextBlock Text="{Binding Name}"/>
<Image>
<Image.Source>
<BitmapImageCreateOptions="BackgroundCreation"
UriSource="{Binding Photo}" />
</Image.Source>
</Image>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.Resources>
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<StaticResourceResourceKey="ItemTemplate"/>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>

About the Author

Nick Randolph runs Built to Roam, a consulting company that specializes in training, mentoring and assisting other companies build mobile applications. With a heritage in rich client applications for both the desktop and a variety of mobile platforms, Nick currently presents, writes and educates on the Windows Phone platform.

comments powered by Disqus

Featured

  • Microsoft Agent Framework Makeover: Claws, Loops and Harnesses

    Microsoft's newly released Agent Framework Harness packages the loops, planning, memory, context management and safety controls that developers previously had to assemble around AI models themselves.

  • Visual Studio 2026 Gives Copilot Built-In Skills -- and Makes Them Prove Their Worth

    Microsoft is moving Agent Skills beyond bring-your-own instructions by shipping expert-authored workflows with the IDE, while keeping them off by default until testing shows their benefits justify the additional token use.

  • Copilot AI Billing Shock Met with Meters, Caps and Token-Saving Tools

    GitHub is layering spending limits, expanded credit allowances and increasingly granular usage reporting onto Copilot, while Microsoft is reworking Visual Studio and VS Code to expose -- and reduce -- the cost of agentic development.

  • The AI-Powered Software Development Lifecycle

    René van Osnabrugge makes the case that AI's biggest opportunity in software development is not faster coding -- it's reducing the friction everywhere else in the SDLC.

Subscribe on YouTube