I have a menu that used to be a treeview control, but now I want to make each element more visual and add additional information to each object in the tree.
My first intention was to create a user control representing the element and add it to the panel at runtime. Is this a good approach? Sometimes there can be more than a hundred items. I know that there is a maximum number of controls that you can theoretically have in form, but this is not my main problem. My concern is mainly about performance.
Another approach that I was thinking about is to make a list and do the extra stuff in the onPaint method. But it seems a little unstable and too complicated to maintain.
Any thoughts?
EDIT:
I tested the user approach by adding 200 user elements to the att form_Load panel and it takes quite a while to actually add, but there seems to be no other performance issues. Scrolling works fine, and I made each user control expandable, and this property does not linger in any case, even when there are about a hundred and a hundred under it on the panel.
But still ... Am I here at all a track?
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