Transparent control over WM Player ActiveX component in .NET

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Published on 2009-07-22T02:35:23Z Indexed on 2010/05/02 21:08 UTC
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I have a Windows media player activex component in my Form. On top of this WM player i have a picturebox with background color set to transparent. When i set an image for this picturebox , thought the image contains transparent areas it is displayed as black when the picturebox is above the WM player component.

Where as if i place the PictureBox somewhere else in the form. The transparent area are rendered properly.

So is there anyway that i can place a transparent image on top of a WM Player component. (hmm something like watermark may be). I want this picture to be displayed with may be 50% opacity when the video is playing in WM player control. Will GDI+ be of any use in this case?

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