Tabpage defaulting to BackColor: Transparent

12 May 2009 9:44 AM

Dean Slindee

Using VS2008: I can set the BackColor of all tabpages within a TabControl to
Color.Control manually. However, the next time that I change a control on
the tabpage, all of the tabpages within that tabcontrol will have their
BackColor automatically changed to Transparent.

I think this behavior started with VS2005, not sure. Is this normal?
Shouldn't the BackColor of any tabpage default to Control?

Thanks in advance.
Dean Slindee

14 May 2009 2:53 PM

Mick Doherty

This behaviour started in VS2005 when a new property was added so that
tabpages could use the texture specified in Visual Styles.

Set the tabpages UseVisualStyleBackColor to false if you do not want a
transparent tabpage. TabPage.BackColor will then default to
SystemColors.Control.

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"Dean Slindee" <slin***@charter.net> wrote in message
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> Using VS2008: I can set the BackColor of all tabpages within a TabControl
> to Color.Control manually. However, the next time that I change a control
> on the tabpage, all of the tabpages within that tabcontrol will have their
> BackColor automatically changed to Transparent.
>
> I think this behavior started with VS2005, not sure. Is this normal?
> Shouldn't the BackColor of any tabpage default to Control?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Dean Slindee
>