doublebuffered – Tarik Billa

Winforms Double Buffering

December 22, 2023 by Tarik

This only has an effect on the form itself, not the child controls. If you have a lot of them then the time they need to take turns painting themselves becomes noticeable, it leaves a rectangular hole where the control goes that doesn’t get filled up until the child control gets it turn. What you’d … Read more

How to double buffer .NET controls on a form?

April 2, 2023 by Tarik

Here’s a more generic version of Dummy’s solution. We can use reflection to get at the protected DoubleBuffered property, and then it can be set to true. Note: You should pay your developer taxes and not use double-buffering if the user is running in a terminal services session (e.g. Remote Desktop) This helper method will … Read more

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