Transparent Form in VB.Net 2010

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How do i make certain parts of the form to have different opacity. For example i want only the top part of the same form to have 50% opacity and the other part to be just normal. I am currently
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Me.Opacity = 0.5

Posted 30-May-14 4:56am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2014-05-30T06:38:00

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There is no such feature in System.Windows.Forms. In general, transparency implementation is quite bad in this library (and WPF is way better). You can do whatever you want at the level of your own rendering, but at the level of controls you cannot really rely on the .NET FCL implementation.

—SA

Posted 30-May-14 6:38am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 30-May-14 6:39am

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