Make the form's background to transparent

vb.net transparency borderless
elvinguitar picture elvinguitar · Feb 15, 2014 · Viewed 39.2k times · Source

I made a borderless form and I set my background image (in PNG format) to something like the one shown in the image below. What I want is to make the form's background transparent so that only the circular image is shown. I tried changing the form's BackColor to Transparent but I'm getting an error saying Property value is not vald

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Answer

Manik G picture Manik G · Feb 19, 2015 
    Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

         Me.TransparencyKey = Color.LightBlue
         Me.BackColor = Color.LightBlue

    End Sub

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