WPF Memory Usage

Question

Application:

• WPF Application consisting of a textbox on top and a listbox below
• Users type a string in the TextBox to find employees, and search results

Answer 1

I've noticed that there are some issues in WPF and .NET 3.5 SP1 w.r.t memory issues in seemingly innocuous situations.

I did find a couple of resources, but I'm not sure they would be helpful to you:

http://blog.ramondeklein.nl/?p=58

That blog post describes a situation whereupon when

1. A style is defined in the application’s ResourceDictionary.
2. The style uses a control template that uses media effects (i.e. DropShadowEffect).
3. The media effect should be referenced using a StaticResource

In a nutshell, I think your solution would be to ensure that any media effects (dropshadow, etc) use static resources.