Pedro Lamas 3/31/2014

WrapPanel is great, so please, stop using it!

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This article explains why using the WrapPanel control as the ItemsPanel for large lists in Windows Phone apps causes severe performance and memory issues. It demonstrates the problem with a code example and provides an alternative solution using grouped items with a VirtualizingStackPanel, which drastically reduces loading times and memory consumption from 120MB to 20MB.

WrapPanel is great, so please, stop using it!

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