Question

I was trying to achieve high speed bitmap writing in Silverlight, and used WriteableBitmap to do it. The scenario is repeatedly writing UIElement like Image onto a 1000×1000 sized bitmap:

WriteableBitmap bitmap = new WriteableBitmap(w, h);
...
for (...) {
   bitmap.Render(patternImg, mymatrix);
   bitmap.Invalidate();
}

Here, silverlight seems can only draw about 50 times per second.
While in HTML5, by using Canvas, context.drawImage(image, dx, dy) , it can do over 5000 times per second (on a 1000×1000 bitmap, if I didn’t make mistake…)

It seems silverlight’s writableBitmap does not utilize the hardware graphic pipeline, is there any way to achieve high-speed bitmap rendering in silverlight?

Answer 1

If you haven’t found these already, here are some links that may be helpful:

WriteableBitmapEX (open source project):

http://writeablebitmapex.codeplex.com/

introduction into WriteableBitmapEx capabilities here:

http://blogs.claritycon.com/blog/2011/03/30/advanced-animation-animating-15000-visuals-in-silverlight-2/

High performance redering in Silverlight:

http://andrewrussell.net/2010/12/high-performance-rendering-in-silverlight/