If you do any WinForms programming then chances are you have used comboboxes, and perhaps at one point or another, you disabled one of those comboboxes because you did not want the user to be able to make a selection. This works fine, however I actually was getting some complaints from users of some of my software apps saying it was too hard to read
So yesterday I talked about making a translucent button in WinForms using VB.NET. If you have not read that yet, then you should probably do so before digging into part 2, where we expand part 1 to cover more controls. Today lets look at making a translucent TabPage control. Here is our end result: So we have a nice cherry sunburst Gibson Les Paul as
Windows Forms controls in .NET do a lot more for us than they did in previous versions of VB. One of the best things about getting all the OO features .NET brought us, is the ability to extend controls through inheritance or some other means. Some controls directly support custom drawing of their visuals, while others need to be extended to do so. One
Welcome to my site. I just got everything up and running, so it may take a few days to work the kinks out in between the other 10 million things I need to do. My primary goal is to get my code examples online so they are available to the VB community to use. That will likely be the first thing that will happen on here.