Semi-transparent PictureBox (C# Windows Forms Application)

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Semi-transparent PictureBox (C# Windows Forms Application)

Hey All,

I have searched and searched, and could only find very, very lenghy VB articles on this.

Is there any way at all, in C#, to make a picturebox semi-transparent so that you can actually see through the PictureBox and see what's behind it?

Thanks

Any help at all is appreciated.

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Does this help?

Sean Kearon 2010-10-16 22:10:42

Just posting a link isn't that helpful. Can you explain what the page is about and extract the relevant information. Don't copy the whole page though.

ChrisF 2010-10-17 00:02:07

Ugly code, in more than one way. But it should work.

Hans Passant 2010-10-17 10:57:39

@ChrisF - sorry, but I'm not sure I agree with that. If the right answer is in the link, then that's all that needs to be said.

Sean Kearon 2010-10-17 17:11:40

@Sean - I know in this case it's a link to a Microsoft support page, but what if the link disappears at some point? The answer would be effectively useless.

ChrisF 2010-10-18 08:01:51

Thanks for the link. The correct answer is somewhere in that page, however it's a very ugly solution, I shouldn't have expected so much from WinForms. I'm rewriting my app in WPF because apparrently everything to do with graphics and effects is way easier. I won't bother to post an answer with code for this as the solution is rather ugly and doesn't work in some cases.

lucifer 2010-10-19 01:18:34

@lucifer - yeah, I couldn't get it any less ugly either!@ChrisF - yes, I take your point, that would have been better.

Sean Kearon 2010-10-19 14:30:08

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