WPF ListView on portable device - extremely slow scrolling

Question

I have a GridView in a ListView contained in a ScrollViewer element.

I understand WPF draws only the visible data at runtime, for example on scrolling grids only th

Answer 1

If you need to create elements on load and do not let Virtualizing panel create them as users scrolls through the list, then you should simply set the VirtualizingStackPanel.IsVirtualizing property to false:

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