winforms - visual c# form update results in flickering

Question

I have a .net app that I've written in c#. On some forms I frequent update the display fields. In some cases every field on the form (textboxes, labels, picturebox, etc) has its value changed. Plus the frequency of the changes could possibly be every second. However, currently there is a horrible flickering everytime the form is updated. How can I stop the flickering? Is there a way to maybe double buffer? Please help!

Answer 1

the short answer is

SetStyle(ControlStyles.OptimizedDoubleBuffer, true);

the long answer is: see MSDN or google

just for fun, try calling Application.DoEvents() after each element is updated, and see if the problem gets better or worse ;-)