wpf datagrid render performance (custom grid control) -

**please see updates question below

i trying use datagrid in wpf application finding performance unbearable.

i binding dataset 100 rows , 15 columns , sort of scrolling or column width resizing paints extremely slowly.

i recall old winforms datagridview had poor performance when cell borders turned on, turning off gridlines in it's wpf counterpart has no effect.

the window grid:

<window x:class="gridperformancetest.mainwindow"     xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"     xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"     title="mainwindow" height="350" width="525"> <grid>     <datagrid itemssource="{binding}" autogeneratecolumns="true" enablecolumnvirtualization="true" enablerowvirtualization="true"               virtualizingstackpanel.isvirtualizing="true" virtualizingstackpanel.virtualizationmode="recycling" background="{x:null}"                borderbrush="{x:null}" issynchronizedwithcurrentitem="false" borderthickness="0" rowheight="15"                gridlinesvisibility="none" horizontalgridlinesbrush="{x:null}" verticalgridlinesbrush="{x:null}" columnheaderheight="15"/> </grid> 

how populating data:

public partial class mainwindow : window {     public mainwindow()     {         initializecomponent();          datasource source = new datasource();          dataset ds = new dataset();         ds.tables.add(source.execute("select * tbl_users"));          this.datacontext = ds.tables[0];     } } 

edit:

so because have had no luck datagrid, i'm sure has many more features looking right (simply display plain text , select data copy/paste) decided try , work on own.

this first shot @ custom user control, have found source of poor performance...the grid.

if write control grid splitters columns , stackpanels contain row data, scrolling through rows flawless - used 'ol winforms datagrid.

grid control code:

public partial class customgridcontrol : usercontrol {     public customgridcontrol()     {         initializecomponent();          (int = 0; < 20; i++)         {             columndefinition col = new columndefinition();             col.width = new gridlength(75);             _rootgrid.columndefinitions.add(col);              stackpanel pnl = new stackpanel();             pnl.orientation = orientation.vertical;              (int x = 0; x < 1000; x++)             {                 textblock blk = new textblock();                 blk.foreground = brushes.black;                 blk.text = "row: " + x.tostring() + " col: " + i.tostring();                  pnl.children.add(blk);             }              grid.setcolumn(pnl, i);             _rootgrid.children.add(pnl);              gridsplitter splitter = new gridsplitter();             splitter.width = 2;             splitter.borderbrush = brushes.black;              grid.setcolumn(splitter, i);             grid.setrowspan(splitter, 1000);              _rootgrid.children.add(splitter);          }     } 

and xaml:

<usercontrol x:class="customgrid.customgridcontrol"          xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"          xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"          xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"           xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"           mc:ignorable="d"           d:designheight="300" d:designwidth="300">  <grid >     <scrollviewer>         <grid x:name="_rootgrid" background="aqua"/>     </scrollviewer> </grid> 

when try , drag 1 of splitters, performance horrible, standard wpf datagrid.

now know not doing virtualization optomize performance or performance stackpanels still 100x better.

to update question - know if has ideas of how handle columns in type of panel allow same gridsplitter type functionality columns.

any links custom panels/grids appreciated well.

as suggested here, can bit of performance improvement setting 'enablerowvirtualization' , 'enablecolumnvirtualization' instead of virtualizingstackpanel.* properties.

you can improve things setting fixed column widths.