Fastest API for rendering text in Windows Forms?

Question

We need to optimize the text rendering for a C# Windows Forms application displaying a large number of small strings in an irregular grid. At any time there can be well ove

Answer 1

GDI is faster at drawing in general that GDI+. I worked on a project that had to draw thousands of lines and text strings and switching from GDI+ to GDI made a significant performance improvement. That was using Windows XP so I cannot comment on Vista. I would also recommend using double buffering for your drawing to also improve performance. Create a compatible off screen bitmap and reuse that each time you need to draw.