Opacity of Buttons/TextBoxes - VB.NET

Question

Is it possible to set the opacity of a button or textbox? I know that you can set the opacity for a form, but I'm not so sure about a button or textbox.

Solution

There is no way to set the opacity of any control in WinForms. Only Forms have the opacity property. If you want to make any control appear semi-transparent, you'll have to implement the whole control from scratch and that will most likely involve drawing the control as an image onto its parent.

Your alternative is to use WPF, which allows setting the opacity of controls.

Comments

[lab12]

WHere is RGBA on Visual Basic 2008 ?

[Victor Zakharov]

This approach does not work. Varying alpha (first parameter) does not make a difference. Tested on a button over a listbox.

[Victor Zakharov]

I think OP was referring to Winforms.

[Victor Zakharov]

Opacity is not the same as Transparency.

[Dman]

He doesn't want it transparent, just change the opacity