Silverlight 3 NavigationCacheMode To The Rescue

I’ve been lucky enough to work on a new project for a client involving Silverlight 3 and the Silverlight Virtual Earth CTP. One reoccurring issue that keeps coming up is performance, and I’m always looking for ways to balance functionality with speed. In the app we are loading up a Virtual Earth map and populating it with data (nothing new). We have a fair amount of data being loaded for various functions and layers. Users are able to show and hide layers as well as interact with the map’s basic functions (zoom, pan, etc). Users can then navigate to other areas based on selections from the map page.