Control Flicker while switching TabPage

[Ingo Beyer]

Hello,

I created a windows form with vs.net 2005 / c#. This control has a
TabControl with 16 TabPages. On every TabPage there are a diffrent number of
Controls. - Every TabPage has a background picture. they are all the same
picture (from a resouce file). There seems to be no way easy to make a
TabControl transparent...

my problem: while switch the visible TabPage the form / TabControl begans to
flicker. it takes a second (and I mead "1 sec") before all controls of the
TabPage are drawed. I can see, who one control after another appears. -
while switching there is only standard code executed, no code written by me.

has anybody an idea how to remove the flicker?

thank you
ingo beyer

[amalaravind]

Hi Ingo,
im also facing the same issue,
but i have used user controls in my tab pages, and the best part is i
ve tried using normal controls also, still same,
even with data access code running its the same performance, all the
controls are drawnone by one like a card stack falling. looks nice.
perhaps someone could suggest an improvement?
what i found most surprising is that the sequential drawing shows same
performance even at runtime with all my 18 combo boxes being populated
from th database.
and please dont suggest a displa card upgrade.
thanx in advance,
Amal