Rod,

>>I am working on a small reference application to demonstrate the capabilities of Winforms. I will take the time to run this on various machines of different resource levels. Memory, CPU, etc.

That's cool... but many of us remember a certain famous version of Paradox that performed brilliantly in exactly that sort of scenario, but was almost unusable with more than 6 users and/or more than a few thousand records.

So lets include some real-life parameters. Lets mount it on a few public servers for a real multi-user test... presumably we agree that is how a database Winforms app would be expected to be used, unlike a paint app.

Can you just let me know what sort of hardware you are using? It may help explain what I see as a major and somewhat surprising perception gap. I can actually *see* controls painting onto the screen in one of mine. I see that somebody else is reporting similar from the paint.net app you posted.