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I’m trying to get a combobox in winform that has around 5’000 entries. I’ve run into a problem before – addrange hangs with this many entries. I created a seperate control to do this for myself without lagging, but I’m adding this functionality to existing comboboxes.
I was looking up VirtualizingStackPanel for WPF when trying to see if I could get around this.
Is there a way to improve the performance of addrange for a couple of thousand string entries?
Have you tried using
ComboBox.BeginUpdateandComboxBox.EndUpdate? Using those methods improves performance when adding items.Of course, if you have 5000 items then maybe using a ComboBox isn’t the right control (having more than 200 items or so makes scrolling impossible, which defeats the point of having a drop-down selector). Have you considered using a normal textbox but with an autocomplete provider instead?