Making UserControls Transparent

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Jav - 26 Oct 2004 13:49 GMT

UserControls do not let the BackColor Property to be set to Transparent.
When placed on a color background, they look ugly. Panels and GroupBoxes can
be made transparent. How does one go about doing the same with UserControls.

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Stoitcho Goutsev \(100\) [C# MVP] - 26 Oct 2004 15:00 GMT

Hi Jav,

In the usercontrol's constructor set the style for supporting transparent
bkg colors

this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.SupportsTransparentBackColor |
ControlStyles.UserPaint, true);

Now you can set the background color you want.

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HTH
Stoitcho Goutsev (100) [C# MVP]

> UserControls do not let the BackColor Property to be set to Transparent.
> When placed on a color background, they look ugly. Panels and GroupBoxes
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> Thanks

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Jav - 26 Oct 2004 15:33 GMT

Thank you. That did the trick.
Jav

"Stoitcho Goutsev (100) [C# MVP]" wrote:

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