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In Visual Basic 6.0, the BackStyle property of the Label control determined whether the label had a transparent background. Setting the BackStyle property to 0 – Transparent allowed any background image or other controls to show through the label.
In Visual Basic .NET, the BackStyle property no longer exists, and the transparency behavior is slightly different. To emulate the transparent behavior in Visual Basic .NET, set the BackColor property to System.Drawing.Color.Transparent. This will allow the background image to show through, but it will not be transparent in regard to other controls.