How to make picturebox transparent?

c# winforms picturebox
Belal Khan picture Belal Khan · Nov 11, 2013 · Viewed 130k times · Source

I am making an application in C# .NET. I have 8 picture boxes in it. I used PNG images with transparent background but in my form it is not transparent when it comes above another image.

I am using Visual Studio 2012. This is a screenshot of my form:

Screenshot of Form

Answer

SuperPrograman picture SuperPrograman · Nov 19, 2013

One way to do this is by changing the parent of the overlapping picture box to the PictureBox over which it is lapping. Since the Visual Studio designer doesn't allow you to add a PictureBox to a PictureBox, this will have to be done in your code (Form1.cs) and within the Intializing function:

public Form1()
{
    InitializeComponent();
    pictureBox7.Controls.Add(pictureBox8);
    pictureBox8.Location = new Point(0, 0);
    pictureBox8.BackColor = Color.Transparent;
}

Just change the picture box names to what ever you need. This should return:

enter image description here

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