visual studio 2010 windows forms app screenupdating property

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Hi i'm a noob to .NET developing and have a simple question, i've been stuck on this for a while and searched many forums first with no solution so i'm posting myself. In VB for excel i've used Screenupdating=false to disable the screen updating however now i'm creating a visual studio 2010 windows forms application and its not showing up as a property. Here is the code i've tried.

VB

Public Class
Public Sub Welcome_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Application.screenupdating = False
End Sub
End Class

And i get the error 'screenupdating' is not a member of 'system.windows.forms.application'.
Thanks.

Posted 3-Jun-11 20:03pm

Bemis82

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2011-06-03T20:35:00

That's because screenupdating is only available in Office: it is not a part of .NET

Think about it: It is there to prevent massive file load operations swamping the screen with updates. Since .NET applications can do anything they like, it can't tell what is a massive file operation. Instead, it provides BeginUpdate and EndUpdate methods for individual controls such as TreeView to do much the same thing, but more accurately targeted.