how to apply opacity to forms only

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Good evening sir, iam working on csharp windows forms. my form have one picturebox and when i'm setting opacity of form to 50% then my picturebox also looking transparent. How to made picturebox got 100% opaque

Posted 4-Dec-11 4:04am

Rao karthik

Updated 4-Dec-11 6:28am

Uday P.Singh

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DaveAuld 4-Dec-11 11:45am

C# or VB.net ?

Monjurul Habib 4-Dec-11 13:49pm

tag says C#

DaveAuld 4-Dec-11 14:53pm

It does now. It originally just said Windows Forms.......

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DaveAuld · Answer 1 · 2011-12-04T05:56:00

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You can apply transparency to the forms surface only by setting the background colour to something like Fuchsia, and then also set the forms transparencykey to the same colour.

Make sure any controls you want to remain visible are also not this colour, and if you don't want to be able to see the forms border or titlebar, then set the borderstyle to None.

Posted 4-Dec-11 5:56am

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Rao karthik 6-Dec-11 4:50am

Yes i did the same thing but still the picturebox got transparent how to avoid picturebox transparency

DaveAuld 6-Dec-11 5:08am

Manually set the BackColor of the picture box control to something else e.g. white.