Kevin
What i do in my apps is cut the gradient background to be 1 pixel width ( or 1 pixel height i don't remember ) and set it as background picture in my forms. This way you can have gradients and the size is really small.

Jaime

>I'm looking for a gradiant style background.
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>I want something akin to the gradiant image found on VS 2005's
>Start Page. Something like that would work.
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>Anyone know where I can get one?