Prevent redrawing of controls on resize for Windows Forms

Question

I have a TableLayoutPanel which holds a dynamic number of controls inside a SplitterPanel. A user may want to resize the panel to fit these Controls to avoid use of a scrol

Answer 1

As Hans commented, SuspendLayout and ResumeLayout work well in this situation, along with Suspending the drawing of the control for the container:

public static class Win32 {

  public const int WM_SETREDRAW = 0x0b;

  [DllImport("user32.dll")]
  public static extern IntPtr SendMessage(IntPtr hWnd, int msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam);

  public static void SuspendPainting(IntPtr hWnd) {
    SendMessage(hWnd, WM_SETREDRAW, (IntPtr)0, IntPtr.Zero);
  }

  public static void ResumePainting(IntPtr hWnd) {
    SendMessage(hWnd, WM_SETREDRAW, (IntPtr)1, IntPtr.Zero);
  }
}

Then from you resize events:

private void Form1_ResizeBegin(object sender, EventArgs e) {
  tableLayoutPanel1.SuspendLayout();
}

private void Form1_ResizeEnd(object sender, EventArgs e) {
  Win32.SuspendPainting(tableLayoutPanel1.Handle);
  tableLayoutPanel1.ResumeLayout();
  Win32.ResumePainting(tableLayoutPanel1.Handle);
  this.Refresh();
}