Transparency for windows forms textbox

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You need to try out something like this.

Add a new user control , say CustomTextBox and change

public partial class CustomTextBox : UserControl

to 

public partial class CustomTextBox : TextBox

You will then get the following error saying that the ‘AutoScaleMode’ is not defined. Delete the following line in the Designer.cs class.

this.AutoScaleMode = System.Windows.Forms.AutoScaleMode.Font;

Make changes to the constructor of your newly added control as follows.

public partial class CustomTextBox : TextBox
{
    public CustomTextBox()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        SetStyle(ControlStyles.SupportsTransparentBackColor |
                 ControlStyles.OptimizedDoubleBuffer |
                 ControlStyles.AllPaintingInWmPaint |
                 ControlStyles.ResizeRedraw |
                 ControlStyles.UserPaint, true);
        BackColor = Color.Transparent;
    }
}

Build, close the custom control designer if open and you will be able to use this control on any other control or form.

Drop it from the toolbox as shown below
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