Is there way to speed up displaying a lot of text in a winforms textbox?

Question

Is there way to speed up displaying a lot of text in a winforms textbox? My application reads a file (which can be as large as 20MB) and then displays it to a textbox (TextB

Answer 1

Having just run into this issue myself, another possible workaround is to use a RichTextBox. Counter-intuitively, considering how much more it can handle compared to a normal TextBox, setting the Text property of a RichTextBox to a very large string is virtually instantaneous.