You might want to try enabling double buffering. This causes the control to
be drawn first to a memory buffer, then rapidly copied to video memory when
finished, and it can dramatically reduce flicker. The following code
snippet demonstrates how to switch double buffering on.
Public Sub EnableDoubleBuffering()
' Set the value of the double-buffering style bits to true.
Me.SetStyle(ControlStyles.DoubleBuffer _
Or ControlStyles.UserPaint _
Or ControlStyles.AllPaintingInWmPaint, _
True)
Me.UpdateStyles()
End Sub
For more information, see the following topic on MSDN
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/
frlrfsystemwindowsformscontrolclasssetstyletopic.asp
Hope this helps!
Matthew Stoecker
Visual Basic User Education Team
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| Dear friends
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| My app load the startup form and all of its controls step by step and its
| indeed not nice. Do somebody know how to hide the form until the painting
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