Loading and compiling resources asynchronously
Within Windows Store apps, it is desirable to keep your application as responsive as possible at all times. Instead of showing a static splash screen for the duration of compiling shaders and loading resources, in this recipe we will initialize our renderers and resources using the async/await keywords.
Getting ready
For this recipe, we will continue from where we left off in the previous recipe Rendering to an XAML SwapChainPanel.
How to do it…
We will first make changes to the SwapChainPanel C# class file and then update the CreateDeviceDependentResources implementation to support asynchronous resource creation. Lastly, we will take a look at some of the additional changes necessary within the code ...
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