Datagridview is transaparent in window xp but work ok in window7.Application is developed in window 7 with vb.net

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Dear All,

I am using a datagridview in vb.net. Its a window base application developed in Window7.
When I install and run the application in window xp. the grid color/grid border color
becomes transparent and have not set any transparent color or property is set to make it transparent.

Have check with xpVisualStyle turned on/off but no success.

Thanks
Sukhen Dass

Posted 11-Jun-14 21:12pm

sukhen dass

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 12-Jun-14 3:45am

Is it System.Windows.Forms application?
—SA

Thava Rajan 12-Jun-14 5:17am

did you try enable application framework in settings

sukhen dass 12-Jun-14 7:11am

don't know what setting u are pointing. but i have turned on/off xpenablevisualstyle in application setting

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2014-06-11T21:49:00

Probably you mean System.Windows.Forms application. If so, here is my advice: avoid using control transparency with this library, its implementation sucks.

In other words, the problem is not in your code, the problem is in this library and in XP.

If you really want transparency, switch to WPF where everything can be transparent. At the same time, using semi-transparent colors (alpha channel) for graphics rendering with System.Drawing (and hence System.Windows.Forms) would be perfectly fine.

—SA