Whenever your C#/.NET DataGridView reaches a certain size, it tends to get really slow to scroll. Depending on the speed of your computer this may be more or less noticeable. In an application i did for a client this became a real problem due to a combination of lots of DataGridView cells and fairly slow [...]

Thread priorities in the .NET framework are more complex than many developers think. Setting Thread priority is more than just adjusting the ThreadPriority of a Thread. You also have to take into account the priority of the process to which the threads belong. The ProcessPriorityClass Setting ThreadPriority to one of the values possible with C# [...]

Here’s a few general guidelines when working with strings: Don’t concatenate strings – use a StringBuilder instead Whenever possible initialize the StringBuilder with enough capacity to avoid re-allocations Excessive concatenation of strings will be several orders of magnitude slower than using a StringBuilder String.Format() & StringBuilder.AppendFormat() are significantly slower than just using the +operator or [...]