Michel,

This did not work as you expected it to in VS2008 either, so it's not a VS2010 issue. Basically I think what happens is that behind the scenes the BackColor of the label takes on the BackColor of its Parent ... it's not really Transparent. If the Parent.BackColor changes, the label.BackColor get changed to match it "behind the scenes". So, typically the label would retain the Form's BackColor. Once you changed the Parent of the Label to the PictureBox, then it correctly uses the image as its BackColor.

Unfortunately, the PictureBox is not a container control, so there's no drag-and-drop way to make it the Parent of the Label.You're stuck having to code it. However ... if you had used a Panel instead of a PictureBox, it would have worked with drag-and-dropping the label into the Panel. A Panel can have an image background.

~~Bonnie


>This support is no longer supported in VS 2010. Basically, we have to set the Parent property of the label to the PictureBox. And, worst, the Parent property is not even in the designer. And, worst, if you have it into a TabControl, everything get lost as far as the location.
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>So, I had to do this:
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>        ' Adjust support for VS 2010
>        Label1.Parent = LxPictureBox3
>        Label1.BackColor = Color.Transparent
>        Label1.BringToFront()
>        Label1.Location = New Point(180, 192)
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