Common Wpf pitfalls

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Published on 2010-04-08T04:33:47Z Indexed on 2010/04/08 4:43 UTC
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I want to gather a list of WPF pitfalls. Issues with WPF that are not that well known and either have some serious design consequences or some major inconveniences.

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