Why does the DoubleBuffered property default to false on a DataGridView and why is it protected?

Question

We had a performance issue with DataGridViews where the redraw was horridly slow and found the solution Here to create a derived type and enable double buffering on the control. (Derived type is necessary since the DoubleBuffered property is protected)

It doesn't seem like there's any drawback to having the DoubleBuffered property set to true.

Answer 1

I think its best solution:

typeof(DataGridView).InvokeMember(
   "DoubleBuffered", 
   BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.SetProperty,
   null, 
   myDataGridViewObject, 
   new object[] { true });

found here