Double buffering with Panel

Use a PictureBox if you don’t need scrolling support, it is double-buffered by default. Getting a double-buffered scrollable panel is easy enough: using System; using System.Windows.Forms; class MyPanel : Panel { public MyPanel() { this.DoubleBuffered = true; this.ResizeRedraw = true; } } The ResizeRedraw assignment suppresses a painting optimization for container controls. You’ll need this … Read more

In what order are Panels the most efficient in terms of render time and performance?

I think it is more concise and understandable to describe the performance characteristics of each panel than it is to try to give an absolute relative performance comparison. WPF makes two passes when rendering content: Measure and Arrange. Each panel has different performance characteristics for each of these two passes. The performance of the measure … Read more

How to Programmatically Scroll a Panel

Here is a solution. I guess you can scroll your Panel by arbitrary position using Win32 however there is a simple trick to help you achieve your requirement here: public void ScrollToBottom(Panel p){ using (Control c = new Control() { Parent = p, Dock = DockStyle.Bottom }) { p.ScrollControlIntoView(c); c.Parent = null; } } //use … Read more

Panel for drawing graphics and scrolling

Set the AutoScroll property to true and the AutoScrollMinSize property to the size of the image. The scrollbars will now automatically appear when the image is too large. You’ll want to inherit your own class from Panel so that you can set the DoubleBuffered property to true in the constructor. Flicker would be noticeable otherwise. … Read more