Let me preface this by saying I do not want to make a picturebox transparent. A picturebox is not involved.

I found these cool freeware controls at innovasys.com, and they look great . Especially the "FramePlus" control. But I want to make a certain portion of this control transparent.

I attached a small png, the area that appears purple is the controls maskcolor. I just want to set that maskcolor to transparent. But every tutorial I found involves a picturebox control and/or a maskpicture.

I never bothered learning vb graphics before, so I have no real idea how to do this. I do know that the control exposes hWnd and hDC properties.

Any help is appreciated.