WPF transparent form in VB.NET

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Hi,
I need help to show an transparent WPF form with a Picture in my VB.NET application.
It must be an WPF form because of the real transparency in WPF.

Thank you in advance.

Posted 25-Oct-13 10:07am

N. Henrik Lauridsen

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-Oct-13 18:16pm

Unlike System.Windows.Forms (better avoid using transparency there), everything in WPF can be done transparent. I don't even understand how it could be a problem.
http://www.whathaveyoutried.com so far?
—SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2013-10-25T12:19:00

Please see my comment to the question. There is no such problem in WPF. Just look at this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.uielement.opacity.aspx[^].

And of course, exactly as in System.Windows.Forms, you can use semi-transparent color with alpha-channel, for appropriate color spaces:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.media.color.aspx[^].

—SA