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Windows Phone HubTile in depth| Part3: Freezing and Unfreezing tiles

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by WindowsPhoneGeek

This is the third article about the new HubTile control from the latest release of Windows Phone Toolkit – August 2011 (7.1 SDK). This time I am going to talk about freezing and unfreezing tiles. It is a good practice, from performance point of view, to freeze the animation of your tiles whenever they are not visible.

NOTE:  For more information about data binding, the key properties, methods, events and the main features of the Windows Phone HubTile control you can take a look at my previous posts:

 

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Windows Phone HubTile in depth| Part1: key concepts and API

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by WindowsPhoneGeek

Recently a new version of the Windows Phone Toolkit was released: Windows Phone Toolkit – August 2011 (7.1 SDK) . Previously we covered all toolkit components in our 21 WP7 Toolkit in Depth articles covering all controls so it is time to continue this series with a few more posts related to the new components that come with Windows Phone Toolkit – August 2011 (7.1 SDK) .

We’ll start with two posts that cover all about the Windows Phone HubTile control in details. In Part1 I am going to talk about key properties, methods, events and the main features of the Windows Phone HubTile control.

 

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