wpf toolkit datagrid performance - wpf

Question

i am porting my application from windows forms to WPF. I have found that datagrid is available only through the WPF Toolkit. However i have some issues with performance. This could be because something that performed alright in windows forms does not in wpf since it has to be implemented differently. Anyhow, i am doing something like this:
// XAML
<toolkit:DataGrid x:Name="dataGrid" ItemsSource="{Binding Path=.}"/>
// C#
DataTable dataTable = new DataTable();
MyViewModel viewModel = new MyViewModel();
this.dataGrid.AutoGenerateColumns = false;
this.dataGrid.CanUserAddRows = false;
this.dataGrid.CanUserDeleteRows = false;
this.dataGrid.CanUserReorderColumns = true;
this.dataGrid.CanUserResizeColumns = true;
this.dataGrid.CanUserResizeRows = false;
this.dataGrid.CanUserSortColumns = true;
this.dataGrid.IsReadOnly = true;
this.dataGrid.VerticalScrollBarVisibility = ScrollBarVisibility.Auto;
this.dataGrid.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility = ScrollBarVisibility.Auto;
this.dataGrid.ColumnHeaderHeight = 18;
this.dataGrid.RowHeight = 18;
this.dataGrid.DataContext = vm.dataGrid;
List<string> s = new List<string>();
for (int i = 0; i < 80; ++i)
{
s.Add("col" + i);
}
for (int i = 0; i < s.Count; ++i)
{
dataTable.Columns.Add(new DataColumn(s[i], typeof(string)));
Binding items = new Binding();
PropertyPath path = new PropertyPath(dataTable.Columns[i].ColumnName);
items.Path = path;
DataGridColumn dc = new DataGridTextColumn()
{
Header = dataTable.Columns[i].ColumnName,
Width=70,
Binding = items
};
this.dataGrid.Columns.Add(dc);
}
viewModel.dataGrid = dataTable;
this.dataGrid.DataContext = viewModel.dataGrid;
for (int i = 0; i < 1000; ++i)
{
var row = dataTable.NewRow();
for (int j = 0; j < s.Count; ++j)
{
row[s[j]] = "text" + s[j] + j;
}
dataTable.Rows.Add(row);
}
The above is a sample of simply generating same number of columns by binding each header.
When this loads, i get all the elements displayed correctly, but scrolling is really slow. I know that someone might say that i am rendering 80 columns and 1000 elements, but i had more than 10000 displayed in my windows forms application and had no issues with it.
The only difference with Windows Forms is that instead of using Binding i was setting the dataGridView's dataSource to the DataTable each time i was updating it.
Any ideas? What am i doing wrong?

Answer 1

Try setting EnableRowVirtualization=True