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Introduction

First of all, I am a newbie at C#. I started it from only two days ago so, sorry for the experts if they didn�t like my article or didn�t find anything useful here. But I think there is some one who may need it to improve his application's interface. The trick is same as the technique which is used at the movies to make the actors do the scene at a room the walls of which is painted with a illuminated color, then the graphic designers put another scene of a forest or a planet or any place else, this is how it works for us.

The first step is to make the required Form graphics by any graphics tool (I usually use the Photoshop). The form graphics must have the background color as illuminated green because this color can be easily grouped and deleted without deleting any edges of the shape you want. In other words, if we used non illuminated color, the dark edges of the shape will be deleted with the background color.

Any way the work will show how it is done, as I did in my sample. You can see what I was saying:

Sample screenshot

But the main problem is that Visual studio needs the same exact color as the background and if you mismatched this rule, the background color will stick to your form. If we take a closer view of our painted form, you can see a small difference at a point on the curved edges:

Sample screenshot

The Visual Studio considers it as a different color than the background, so it leaves it without deleting and it looks very awful at your form as:

Sample screenshot

So try to eliminate all different colors from your graphic before using it. Now another thing �. When you save your background color, try to make the background color take a little space from it because the VS considers it as a part of the form although it eliminates it.

Now save your work as .bmp file and open VS.NET. Make a project that contains a C# empty form and start modifying it as the following:

Sample screenshot

Add the button and the label you want and adjust the form properties as the following:

Adjust the Button properties as the following:

Adjust the Label properties as the following:

Add this code to the button1_Click function:

Application.Exit();

If you want your form moveable, you can use the code at Jibin's article (Interactive Shaped Forms). That is all.

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GeneralThis way it'll work Pin
balazs_hideghety
2:40 18 Aug '09  
Generalchange color depth and it will work Pin
osamahamed123
2:30 26 Feb '06  
GeneralThe true way to make any shaped form Pin
Rezaul
22:08 17 Oct '04  
GeneralThanks and another trick Pin
RAAK
11:44 3 Apr '04  
GeneralRe: Thanks and another trick Pin
H_LionHeart
13:58 28 Apr '04  
Generaldidn't worked Pin
vandana chadha
19:51 28 Mar '04  
GeneralVery clean...Thanks Pin
servero
1:08 26 Mar '04  
GeneralNot on NT4 Pin
Martin Robins
6:47 23 Mar '04  
GeneralRe: Not on NT4 Pin
H_LionHeart
13:44 23 Mar '04  
GeneralRe: Not on NT4 Pin
Ed.Poore
5:56 12 Mar '06  
Generaldoesnt work for me Pin
_taz_
2:41 18 Mar '04  
GeneralRe: doesnt work for me Pin
LoneRanger
4:55 18 Mar '04  
GeneralRe: doesnt work for me Pin
H_LionHeart
4:57 18 Mar '04  
GeneralRe: doesnt work for me Pin
Matthew Hazlett
9:21 18 Mar '04  
GeneralRe: doesnt work for me Pin
H_LionHeart
10:40 18 Mar '04  
GeneralRe: doesnt work for me Pin
kareemshaker
23:01 20 Mar '04  
GeneralWorks for me! Pin
breinholt
12:23 25 Mar '04  
GeneralRe: doesnt work for me Pin
H_LionHeart
13:56 28 Apr '04  
GeneralRe: doesnt work for me Pin
djones7936
18:46 27 Mar '04  
GeneralRe: doesnt work for me Pin
gazza_
11:36 28 Mar '04  
GeneralRe: doesnt work for me Pin
H_LionHeart
14:18 28 Mar '04  


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