The Top 5 WPF and Silverlight Gotchas. As WPF and Silverlight sit on the .NET framework, they’re subject to the rules of the Garbage Collector.
That means there are a few unique ways in which WPF will cause your application to leak memory, and Chris Farrell points out the most prominent culprits. As I’m sure you know, WPF and Silverlight both use XAML as their interface markup language. The idea is that you can define your user interface (UI) and bind it to data without ever writing a line of code (healthy skepticism advised). WPF Themes. Caliburn: A Client Framework for WPF and Silverlight.