Hi

In my latest article I discussed Scrolling and Binding to large collections in WPF. We saw some disturbing behavior when binding a large collection to an ItemsControl. After Further Examination I found out very interesting things regarding that matter.

Memory Consumption

We saw that the application used about 500MB of Ram. Lets look at the code again:

Lately I was working on an application that had to display a large amount of objects on screen and allow filtering. I have learned that scrolling large collections was not so simple in WPF, and I definitely did not see the problems coming.

Memory Consumption

Here is an example of a simple WPF application which randomly creates 50000 Classes of type DATA in a list and displays them in an Item control: