How to profile a XAML Windows Store App

This post details how to use the Visual Studio CPU profiler to identify performance bottlenecks in XAML Windows Store Apps. It explains CPU sampling, collecting data, analyzing the summary page, function details, and call tree views. It also provides a code example demonstrating performance improvements by re-using storyboards and storing objects as properties. The post highlights that even non-CPU bound applications can benefit from profiling to find expensive code paths.