Items Control - useful tip

When you are updating the items or the collection pointed to by ItemsSource on an ItemsControl (or ListBox or ListView), do you wish you could SuspendLayout and ResumeLayout, like in Windows Forms days?

Well, you can!

What you need to do is call DeferRefresh, like so:


using(dataView.DeferRefresh())
{
dataView.SortDescriptions.Clear();
dataView.SortDescriptions.Add(new SortDescription(headerProperty, GetLastSortDirection(lv)));
}

here i am going to sort a ListView, but don’t want any layout calculations to occur etc

It will stop any updates happening, then do a Refresh() as you go out of scope of the using statement