Version: 10.2A
I have form that has quite a few controls in there. A comparable form in Visual Studio takes about 2.5secs while in Architect it takes about 8.5secs.
NOTE: No business logic is running just plain form with lots of controls.
Latest service pack?
Try 10.2B - that appears to be much faster.
If there are natural groupings of controls on the form, then turn the groups into individual user controls and put the user control on the form instead of the individual controls. If you have a tabbed form, then each tab page tends to lend itself to this model.
The point of this suggestion is to reduce the amount of code parsing that needs to be done by the designer to load the form as this is the most expensive part of loading the designer.
Each section is already a usercontrol. Sorry, I wasn't clear about my initial post. I am talking about run-time's load and display being slow.
Sorry, I was talking about the run-time slowness and not the designer's performance.
Removed - since my comments did not apply
Message was edited by: Matthew Baker