I have spent quit a bit of time searching for a remedy for our form flickering issue. On some of our busy forms (80-100 controls) when the form is drawing you can see the individual controls being drawn, which causes the form to flicker. What I want to happen is basically draw the form invisibly, then once all the forms are drawn show the entire form. I have attempted the doublebuffer solution but it has not helped the situation.



Has anyone else experienced this 'flicker'? If so how did you remedy it?

Yes, we have experienced it... and the only solution we have found was to places sets of controls on separate tabs on the page.  The DoubleBuffer property on the form didn't do anything for us, either, and there is no way to completely lock a form and prevent drawing or to force the form to only draw one time.  Anyone else have a suggestion?

Is the flicker issue resolved in the framework when using tabbed forms?