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Why isn't my transparent static control transparent?

October 28, 2011 Oct 28, 2011 10/28/11

Raymond Chen

A customer reported that their application uses transparent static controls positioned over a bitmap image control, but even though they set the Transparent property on the static control, the static control isn't transparent. The customer was kind enough to provide clear steps to illustrate the problem: Open Visual Studio 2005 or 2008. ...