Slow drawing of items in ListView with many columns

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I use a ListView in a virtual mode. When the number of columns increases (>500) - drawing becomes too slow. To scroll hangs. Please tell me how to get rid of this problem and increase the performance of ListView?

Simple test project:

public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        private const int maxLines = 1000000;//rows
        private const int columns = 1024;
        ListViewItem lvi = new ListViewItem();            

        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent(); 

            //ListView Properties
            this.listView1.FullRowSelect = true;
            this.listView1.GridLines = true;
            this.listView1.MultiSelect = false;
            this.listView1.Name = "listView1";
            this.listView1.UseCompatibleStateImageBehavior = false;
            this.listView1.View = System.Windows.Forms.View.Details;
            this.listView1.RetrieveVirtualItem += new System.Windows.Forms.RetrieveVirtualItemEventHandler(this.listView1_RetrieveVirtualItem);       
        }

        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            listView1.VirtualMode = true;
            listView1.VirtualListSize = maxLines;

            PropertyInfo aProp = typeof(ListView).GetProperty("DoubleBuffered", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);
            aProp.SetValue(listView1, true, null);

            //create columns
            for (int i = 0; i < columns; i++)
                listView1.Columns.Add(i.ToString(), 40);

            //create test data
            for (int i = 0; i < columns; i++)
            {
                ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem lvsi = new ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem();
                lvsi.Text = i.ToString();
                lvi.SubItems.Add(lvsi);
            }
        }

        //get item in virtual mode
        private void listView1_RetrieveVirtualItem(object sender, RetrieveVirtualItemEventArgs e)
        {
            e.Item = lvi;
        }

    }
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Eyjolfur On

You need to use ownerdraw or customdraw to only draw visible columns. You can use HitTest to check what column is at the top left corner and start from there...