large forms slow in designer

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lloyd

For a while now I've been writing a point-of-sale application that has many
tab pages each with lots of components. The designer is getting very slow
at loading it, i'm wondering if there are any recommended practices for
splitting up the tab pages? I was able to make each page its own control
and although it spead things up a bit, its a pretty lame approach. What do
all of you do when you have forms with hundreds of components on different
pages? thanks.

Lloyd
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If you can, create a UserControl for each tab page. It is not hard to test
if you do it one page at a time. When the tab is clicked you can then check
to see if the UC is loaded and if not then dynamically load it. This will
speed up the load in both dev and runtime.

Lloyd Sheen
 
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