>I have a form that uses several charts on different tabs, but the charts aren't rendered until their respective sections are visible. I find that when I run our app executable the performance is very slow, but when I run the executable within my IDE (i.e. do myapp.exe), the speed is cut by about half.
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You can use the Coverage Profiler to see where slowdown is. http://www.levelextreme.com/ViewPageNewDownload.aspx?Session=6F6A7150487577587877633D206E6C4C49353174443757657363615A76644B357876673D3D can help