How do I suspend painting for a control and its children?

Question

I have a control which I have to make large modifications to. I\'d like to completely prevent it from redrawing while I do that - SuspendLayout and ResumeLayout aren\'t eno

Answer 1

A nice solution without using interop:

As always, simply enable DoubleBuffered=true on your CustomControl. Then, if you have any containers like FlowLayoutPanel or TableLayoutPanel, derive a class from each of these types and in the constructors, enable double buffering. Now, simply use your derived Containers instead of the Windows.Forms Containers.

class TableLayoutPanel : System.Windows.Forms.TableLayoutPanel
{
    public TableLayoutPanel()
    {
        DoubleBuffered = true;
    }
}

class FlowLayoutPanel : System.Windows.Forms.FlowLayoutPanel
{
    public FlowLayoutPanel()
    {
        DoubleBuffered = true;
    }
}