Home/ Questions/Q 842271
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-15T05:55:57+00:00

Is there a way to turn off all visual updates to a .NET form

  • 0

Is there a way to turn off all visual updates to a .NET form while I am manipulating it? When my program first loads, for example, I set the tab control to the tab that was last open. The user can see the program switching tabs.

I have looked into SuspendLayout and ResumeLayout, but either I don’t understand what they are doing, or I am not using them correctly, because they don’t seem to have any effect. Someone told me that there used to be a way to turn off paint events in VB 6. Does this still exist in .NET?

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    For the main window, the simplest thing to do is to create the window hidden, do all your things, and then show the window. This way you’ll have one complete redraw, and some parts of the layout performed once.

    • 0