Refreshing UI controls is to slow

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I have a winform application that receives data from multiple serial ports and displays the received data in multiple labels. I'm receiving the data around every 500 ms.

I have also other controls in my UI with which users can interact while viewing the information received.

The problem is that while users interact with the application the rest of the labels are frozen until the user stops using the UI.

there is some method to improve the performance of the UI?

Note: The processing of the received data is done in another thread (since the serial ports works that way) and then the Text property of the labels is changed using:

VB

If Me.InvokeRequired Then
    Me.BeginInvoke(....)
Else
   Me.Label1.Text = newValue
    ...
End If

Posted 7-Jun-12 7:59am

cass3000

Updated 7-Jun-12 8:00am

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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10731934/why-html-web-ui-response-slower-than-winforms-native-ui[^]

Posted 7-Jun-12 8:39am

abhinavvijay

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Dave Kreskowiak 7-Jun-12 15:15pm

Where in his post did you see anything that says he was writing an ASP.NET app?

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Dave Kreskowiak · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-07T09:17:00

How many labels are we talking about here? Since controls have an overhead, you might have to paint these items yourself for better performance.

Though, twice a second isn't really a performance killer unless you've got a machine that was made 10 years ago.

As for the user interaction stopping the UI, this is probably the biggest clue that you've done something very wrong. If the user it typing in a textbox, it show have no effect at all on the other labels painting themselves.

Without seeing your code, it's pretty much impossible to tell you what's wrong.