dataGridView background color

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How can i make datagridview background as transparent.
Background of my form is an image.
i am getting an error that invalid property.

Posted 9-Oct-11 8:18am

theanil

Updated 10-Oct-11 8:16am

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André Kraak · Answer 1 · 2011-10-10T08:09:00

Solution 2

As far as I could find there is not standard way to do this, you will need to subclass the DataGridView and take care of the painting yourself.
You also need to set the background colour of all columns to transparent.

See this SO answer: Set datagrid view background to transparent[^].
As the answer mentions it is indented for an image background, but can be changed to use the parent background colour.

Good luck.

Posted 10-Oct-11 8:09am

André Kraak

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theanil 10-Oct-11 14:16pm

In my project i have an background image..
what shall i do for that..

André Kraak 10-Oct-11 14:22pm

Then the answer given in the link at supplied (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1330220/set-datagrid-view-beckground-to-transparent/2462381#2462381) should solve your problem.
So subclass the DataGridView and use the code in the link.

theanil 10-Oct-11 14:25pm

I tried it but its not working.

André Kraak 10-Oct-11 14:37pm

Did you make sure that the DataGridView uses the subclass.
http://www.thescarms.com/dotnet/DeriveGrid.aspx

Nishant Priyadarshi · Answer 2 · 2011-10-09T08:48:00

Solution 1

Try following
GridView1.BackColor = Color.Transparent

Hope this should help.

Posted 9-Oct-11 8:48am

Nishant Priyadarshi

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theanil 9-Oct-11 14:54pm

Thanks,
I have already tried it its not working.