Terry,

The design loading speed seems to be related with our designer extension that populates the controls property with description and proper attributes. It doesn't seem to have relation with the control performance itself.

This automatically justifies the performance when compared with non ClientUI pages or with other vendors controls as they haven't implemented designer extension yet, AFAIK.

If you can live without the property description and specific attributes like category, this may speed up the designer loading. Let me know if this is desirable and we may provide an option to disable the extension in the upcoming release.

Hope this helps,
Jimmy

Thanks for the quick response Jimmy, yeah I think that if this was an option that could be turn on or off via a menu that would be a very good solution.

Thanks

Added to our feature request database as work item #862.

Many thanks for your feedback!

Regards,
Jimmy

Dear,

I'm having the same issue with the new release of ClientUI (v5).

It takes sometimes between 20 to 40 secs to refresh the designer in Silverlight.

Is there a work-around or setting that can be changed to solve this ?

Kind regards,

JohnV

Options to turn off property designer extension

ClientUI includes a designer extension that parses and loads the documentation from the assembly's XML comment file. The process also adds category and other designer-related attributes to each property when the designer is loading the designer for that particular assembly. The combination of these property-related processes may cause the Visual Studio designer to load slower particularly during compile time when the page contains a number of controls from different ClientUI assemblies.

In the case that the property description and categoryare less important in your development,you may choose to turn off the property designer extension to improve the Visual Studio designer loading time. To turn off the property designer extension, please follow the instructions below.

• Open Registry Editor
• Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Intersoft Solutions\ClientUI\[InstalledVersion]\Silverlight. For examples, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Intersoft Solutions\ClientUI\5.0.5000\Silverlight
• Add a new string value named "LoadDesignerExt" and set the value to 0.

Note: For x64 operating system, please locate the registry node under the Wow6432Node branch.

Thanks,

This solved my issue. One little note however : there is no Silverlight key underneath the [Installed Version], instead there are 2 keys : Silverlight 3 & Silverlight 4.

After adding the key Silverlight and the string value "LoadDesignerExt" it worked as expected.

Kind regards,

JohnV

This hasn't solved my issue.  I'm running the eval version of ClientUI 2011.  My dev environment is basically unusable with your controls.  Every click there is a delay of ~40 seconds where the screen freezes.  I'm running vs 2010 sp1.  I'm running on 2.1 ghz core 2 duo with 3gb ram.  windows 7 64 bit.  suggestions?

per JohnV's last post i added the Silverlight key and it worked.  disregard.  thanks.