Drawstring vs. Drawtext performance

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VB

user-controls

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I have a custom control that used a lot of Label controls inside, and i started experiencing performance issues when drawing/redrawing the screen So i decided to remove them as they look overwhelming and just draw the texts I needed

I started using Graphics.DrawString method, which was SUPER fast and the performance when resizing/redrawing the screen was perfect, but then I noticed the text render wasn't exactly the same as the one Labels uses, and didn't look that good.

I then found out about TextRenderer.DrawText method and I switched to it, but the problem came back again, when you resize the form/control the performance is awful.

Is this a normal behavior? I researched a bit and came to read that TextRenderer.DrawText is preferable and better as it uses GDI+ as opposed as GDI, but this clear is not my case?

We are talking about a 100% standard WinForm vb.net app with VisualStyles enabled.

What I have tried:

TextRenderer.DrawText(e.Graphics, "Hello World", Me.Font, New Rectangle(1, 1, 200, 20), Me.ForeColor, TextFormatFlags.Left)

e.Graphics.DrawString("Hello World", Me.Font, _Brush, New Rectangle(1, 1,200, 20), _StringFormat)