Hello All,

I have been struggling with a little project that needs a label to contain text with an outline aka stroke.
The Text is white and the background in teal. I would like to be able to add a black stroke to the text contained in a Label

I came across lots of interesting code and have figured out how to create just outline text but I need to have the text white with a black outline.

The code I have been trying to use to achieve this is as follows

Code:
Imports System.Drawing.Drawing2D

Public Class BorderLabel
    Inherits Label
    Public outline_color As Color = Color.Black
    Public border_thickness As Integer = 5
    Public Sub New()
        MyBase.New
    End Sub


    Protected Overrides Sub OnPaint(ByVal e As PaintEventArgs)
        e.Graphics.FillRectangle(New SolidBrush(BackColor), ClientRectangle)
        Dim gp As GraphicsPath = New GraphicsPath
        Dim outline As Pen = New Pen(Me.outline_color, Me.border_thickness)
        Dim sf As StringFormat = New StringFormat
        Dim foreBrush As Brush = New SolidBrush(ForeColor)
        gp.AddString(GV.Text, Font.FontFamily, CType(Font.Style, Integer), Font.Size, ClientRectangle, sf)
        e.Graphics.ScaleTransform(1.3!, 1.35!)
        e.Graphics.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.HighQuality
        e.Graphics.DrawPath(outline, gp)
        e.Graphics.FillPath(foreBrush, gp)
    End Sub
End Class
This isn't my code but it does seem to indicate that it should do as I want.
I created a new project to test this and just using the defaults
Form1
and a label named BorderLabel1 with some text "Test TEXT"

So this is where I fall down. I cannot get it to work at all and am hoping that someone might be able to point out where I am going wrong.

I simply want to use a label with the added functionality of being able to display the text with a border where the text color is defined, the border color is defined and the border width is defined, along with all the normal attributes associated with the control

I thought that using a label named BorderLabel1 would distinguish the it from the normal Label control.

I am looking forward to your advice and guidance

Regards,
Antony.