How to fix the flickering in User controls

Question

In my application i am constantly moving from one control to another. I have created no. of user controls, but during navigation my controls gets flicker. it takes 1 or 2 se

Answer 1

If you are doing any custom painting in the control (i.e. overriding OnPaint) you can try the double buffering yourself.

Image image;
protected override OnPaint(...) {
    if (image == null || needRepaint) {
        image = new Bitmap(Width, Height);
        using (Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(image)) {
            // do any painting in image instead of control
        }
        needRepaint = false;
    }
    e.Graphics.DrawImage(image, 0, 0);
}

And invalidate your control with a property NeedRepaint

Otherwise the above answer with SuspendLayout and ResumeLayout is probably what you want.