Loading a large but blank DGV in VB.Net

VB.Net DataGridView - if you use this conventionally then you will have perhaps a couple of dozen columns and an indeterminate number of rows. This seems to incur a large system overhead in the display - it can take 25-30 seconds to show you an empty grid! There are lots of Google responses on how to handle massive data load (page it, whatever) but I had a real job to find somebody who could tell me how to load a DGV with 200 columns and 150 rows (for example). I did find a site that used DoubleBuffering (a term I am familiar with, but have never correctly used)