Minimize Flickers in Windows Forms

Expertise: Intermediate
Language: .NET

November 11, 2008

Users often experience flickers when loading forms or during other operations. To minimize this flickering, enable double buffering on the form, as illustrated below:


// Activates double buffering
this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.DoubleBuffer |
ControlStyles.OptimizedDoubleBuffer |
ControlStyles.UserPaint |
ControlStyles.AllPaintingInWmPaint, true);
this.UpdateStyles();

When DoubleBuffer is set to true, drawing is performed in a buffer. After it completes, the result is output to the screen. UserPaint and AllPaintingInWmPaint should also be set to true. <

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