Loading data into a FlowControl as you scroll - C#

Question

I'm creating a program which displays product information and I want it to have two display modes, table view and then a scrollable control view with images etc.

I have all my product info loaded into a data table and want to use this to populate my FlowControl however, there is too much data and it times out.

Is there a method which can be used to load the data as the Flow is scrolled?

for(int i = 0; i < dt_prods.Rows.Count; i++)
{
    Product flowProd = new Product();
    flowProd.Controls["lbl_product"].Text = dt_prods.Rows[i]["product"].ToString();
    flow_products.Controls.Add(flowProd);
}

Above is my code that passes the data to the FlowControl currently.

You are trying to solve the wrong problem. No user is going to take the time to scroll through two thousand product images to find the one he's interested in. Make your UI usable and you'll automatically solve this problem as well. — Hans Passant, Jun 18 '18 at 15:55
The products will be filterable, so I guess I could load the flowControl after the filtering is applied? — benjiiiii, Jun 18 '18 at 15:57
The idea is that it will load them all, and then filtering will be faster etc. So get all the loading done in one go — benjiiiii, Jun 18 '18 at 15:59

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 18 '18 at 16:50

1

Create some pagination instead for example your load 25 objects on the start of the application to the panel and then you create buttons dynamically that shows different data on your panel when you click on different buttons I think you can make it it's very easy

answered Jun 18 '18 at 16:50

Wilmar Arias

186
8

Ahh, I like this idea. So I load 25, then when an arrow is clicked it loads the next 25 and displays these! – benjiiiii Jun 19 '18 at 07:49

Loading data into a FlowControl as you scroll - C#

1 Answers1