Freezable Class

The Freezable class provides special features that can help improve application performance when using objects that are expensive to modify or copy. Examples of Freezable objects include the following:

• Brush

• Pen

• Geometry

• Transform

• AnimationTimeline

Deriving From Freezable

This example shows how to make a Freezable read-only by calling its Freeze method.

You cannot freeze a Freezable object if any one of the following conditions is true about the object:

• It has animated or data bound properties.

• It has properties that are set by a dynamic resource. For more information about dynamic resources, see the XAML Resources.

• It contains Freezable sub-objects that cannot be frozen.

If these conditions are false for your Freezable object and you do not intend to modify it, consider freezing it to gain performance benefits.

The following example freezes a SolidColorBrush, which is a type of Freezable object.

Button myButton = new Button();
SolidColorBrush myBrush = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Yellow);          

if (myBrush.CanFreeze)
{
    // Makes the brush unmodifiable.
    myBrush.Freeze();
}

myButton.Background = myBrush;  

For more information about Freezable objects, see the Freezable Objects Overview.

More Code

.NET Framework

.NET Framework Client Profile

Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

Any public static members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

When the IsFrozen property is false, a Freezable object can be accessed only from the thread on which it was created. Attempting to access it from another thread throws an InvalidOperationException. The Dispatcher.Invoke and Dispatcher.BeginInvoke methods provide support for marshalling to the correct thread.

When their IsFrozen property is true, Freezable objects are free-threaded. For more information, see Freezable Objects Overview.

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