.NET Framework - WPF: Layout recursion reached allowed limit to avoid stack overflow: '255'

Hi,

I'm binding my Treeview to an XML document that has less than 100 nested Log
nodes. But I still get this error. If the depth of the XML is 100, how can
the visual tree be 255 nodes deep?
The datatemplate for my Treeview looks like this:

ItemsSource="{Binding XPath=Log}">

Thanks, Thorsten

Because your tree nodes are composed of their own nested elements.  Your
template uses a stack panel. That's one layer. Nested inside you have other
controls that have their own content inside them. That gives you a few
layers. The TreeNode itself will be using one or more containers to hold the
collection of child nodes.

Basically this means that each node is probably comprised of 2 - 5 nested
containers regardless of your data template. If you then nest nodes within
nodes to make it 100 deep, you easily exceed 255 nested visual elements.

Andrew Faust

Hello Thorsten,

Nice to see you again! Andrew's explanation is totally right. Thanks for
Andrew's warmhearted discussion! :-)

Each node will be composed of a few nested visuals meaning that the total
number of nested visuals will reach 255 before too long. This is a known
limitation and reported before. WPF has a hardcoded layout recursion limit
something around 250. We can see the layout recursion limitation from
reflector codes as follows,

static ContextLayoutManager()
{
_updateCallback=new
DispatcherOperationCallback(ContextLayoutManager.UpdateLayoutCallback);
_updateLayoutBackground=new
DispatcherOperationCallback(ContextLayoutManager.UpdateLayoutBackground);
s_LayoutRecursionLimit = 250;
}

The product team was also considering improving this limitation. But the
problem is this is a limitation/performance balance issue. So, at this
time, we choose the 250 limitation since it will insure the application
performance. As the performance get improved in the future version. This
limited value will be increased.

You can get a detailed discussion in the following MSDN Forum thread.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wpf/thread/e64aba77-aeb5-4980-
bf37-a37018865b6e/#page:1

Please let me know if there is any future assistance we can provide from
our side. Have a nice day!


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Thanks for the explanation Andrew.

Thorsten