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I don’t know what is wrong here. Firstly It is Winforms application using .net 2.0.
I have a Panel (backcolor set to Transparent, I want it to be see-through).
At run-time I want to overlap this panel on controls, show a new panel over it (as to make it feel like a model dialog). but the panel is not rendered transparent.
When you render a panel as transparent in WinForms, it is not true alpha transparency. I believe that at the point of setting it to transparent, it uses the colour located underneath / in the parent container as it’s background colour, so it is more like simulated transparency.
More info @ http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943454 along with a solution for this, but seems quite longwinded for a somewhat simple task.