Making a TextBox Transparent

c# textbox transparency picturebox windows-mobile-5.0
Nathan Campos picture Nathan Campos · Nov 11, 2009 · Viewed 23.4k times · Source

I have a TextBox in my Form that I want to let it be tranparent and show a picture that is in a PictureBox, behind it, but how I can do this? Thanks.

Answer

Joel picture Joel · Jul 29, 2013

Not too complex, after some searching on StackOverflow, I found this answer.

Basically, you need to subclass TextBox and in its constructor add the appropriate style.

Final stpe, set its BackColor to Transparent. Hope it helps.

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