High Dock Manager Memory Usage?

[Bryan Newson]

We would like to use the Dock Manager control in a number of projects at my company, but we noticed that the memory consumption of a WPF application using the control seems very high.

For example, when directly executing the .exe produced from a release build of the DockingDemo_2008 sample project (Essential Tools v8.2.0.28), the application consumes a whopping 155MB on my machine.

I'm running Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit OS with 8GB of RAM. The DockingDemo_2008 image I'm running is 32-bit.

Is this normal? If so, is there anything we can do to decrease the memory footprint of this control?

[Jawahar]

Hi Bryan,

Currently all our Tools WPF controls are loaded along with the Skin Resource dictionaries, since we incorporated the Skin Libraries within the same assembly. We are going to have a seperate assembly for Skin libraries in our Volume 4 release to reduce this memory consumption.

Let us know if you have any queries.

Thanks,
Jawahar

[Tim Lloyd]

How does the work regarding the skin manager carried out in volume 3 relate to this post?

Has this work already been fully\partially carried out in volume 3, or is there more to come for volume 4?

[Ramalakshmi M]

Hi Bryan,

We revamped the skinmanger in Tools.WPF in volume3.Previously if you run DockingDemo_2008 in 8.2.0.18 build it will consume nearly 155MB.We are glad to say that due to revamping the skinmanager memory consumption is reduced to half approximately it consumes 74MB .

Please let me know if you have any queries.


Regards,
Ramalakshmi M.

[Tim Lloyd]

Just to make things clear:

1. Is the work you were intending to do been completed in Volume 3?
2. Is there more work in this area scheduled for Volume 4?

Thanks, Tim.

[Ramalakshmi M]

Hi Bryan,

1.Revamping the skinmanager in Tools.WPF to reduce the memory consumption has been completed in volume 3 itself.

2.No more work is sheduled in this area for volume 4.

Plese let us know if you have any queries.

Regards,
Ramalakshmi M.