Recently I have had to utilize transparent images within Panel(s) and PictureBox(s) for the wiindows app.
However it seems that neither will not do true transparency because each clears it’s background using the Windows Forms transparency scheme, thus resulting in the background color of any parent elements being rendered.
All is not lost however as you can create a custom transparent control to host your image fairly easily. First of all you need to create a new component class.
Once this has been done just modify the code to reflect the following: Read..