Designer redraws every control on form

[sbostedor]

This is something that I've just been putting up with in every version of Visual Studio since the first one. The main form of my project has a couple listboxes, a treeview, and a few other standard controls on it just like the 20 other forms in the project.

For some odd reason, though, when I flip to the designer for this form, the thing flashes a bunch of times and appears to be cycling through all of the controls and then finally settles down.

Has anyone else experienced this?

 

[JohnH]

It is perhaps not the same thing as you describe, but I do encounter severe updating slowdowns in VS when switching from code view to design view if I have a lot of forms open (both code and design) at the same time.

Usually that is the time I decide to cleanup my workspace, I rarely have the need to have all these forms open for edit at the same time, they just stay open from the last time I opened them..

So my best tip is to close in editor all those open forms you're not working on at the moment, it only takes a split second to fetch one again from solution explorer.