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Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation

You're reading from   Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation Build responsive UIs for desktop applications with WPF

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838643416
Length 626 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Sheridan Yuen Sheridan Yuen
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Preface 1. A Smarter Way of Working with WPF 2. Debugging WPF Applications FREE CHAPTER 3. Writing Custom Application Frameworks 4. Becoming Proficient with Data Binding 5. Using the Right Controls for the Job 6. Adapting the Built-In Controls 7. Mastering Practical Animations 8. Creating Visually Appealing User Interfaces 9. Implementing Responsive Data Validation 10. Completing that Great User Experience 11. Improving Application Performance 12. Deploying Your Masterpiece Application 13. What Next? 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Shrinking data objects

Quite often, our applications will have fairly sizable data objects, with dozens, or even hundreds, of properties. If we were to load all of the properties for each data object when we have thousands of them, our application would slow down and possibly even run out of memory.

We might think that we can save on RAM by simply not populating all of the property values, but if we use the same classes, we'll soon find that even the default or empty values for these properties may consume too much memory. In general, and with a few exceptions, unset CLR properties take the same amount of RAM as set properties.

If our data Model object has a very large number of properties, one solution would be to break it down into much smaller pieces. For example, we could create a number of smaller, sub product classes, such as ProductTechnicalSpecification, ProductDescription, ProductDimension, ProductPricing, and so on.

Rather than building one giant View to edit the whole...

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