Performance and Element Visibility
XAML-based apps provide two properties that allow you to hide or reveal UI elements: UIElement.Visibility and UIElement.Opacity—each of which has performance implications depending on how it is used.
The UIElement.Visibility property is handled by the UI thread. When an element’s Visibility property is set to Collapsed, the visual tree must be redrawn. The upside is that when collapsed, the UIElement is not retained in visual memory, and thus decreases the amount of memory used by your app.
Conversely, controlling the visibility of an element using the UIElement.Opacity property allows the element to be bitmap cached; the element is stored as a simple bitmap image after the first render pass. Bitmap caching ...
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