Hello,
I have a winform that looks beautiful. All the panels have bacground
images. I even have rollover buttons for the main navigation.  My
problem is that it loads slower than a "plain" winform app. Also when
minimizing the form and switching back to my application it has "blank
sections" that occur for a few moments. Right now my application is
just a shell, there is no "programming code". All the code has been
done in the forms designer except for the rollovers.

What can I do to
1) optimize the performance overall of the application
2) make repaints quicker
3) generally run faster

Right now the only way I know to "optimize" the application is (a)
write efficient code and (b)Setting the "Configuration" to "Release"
and (c) setting "Optimize Code" to "true".

Thanks,
Tom