<p>I'm having some trouble with Visual Studio 2008 on my Windows XP SP2 laptop.</p>

<p>What happens is that when I start a program with a few textboxes and stuff like that, the boxes are see-through. I can litteraly see through them and see what's on the underlaying screen. Like if I only have this Form showing and behind that my wallpaper, I can see my wallpaper through the Textbox, ComboBox, even through the small cracks between various elements.</p>

<p>i've searched the web but haven't encountered info on this yet. Does anybody know what might be causing this and how to solve it? I'm in the process of trying to see how the text in my TextBoxes is parsed, but I can't since I can't even enter anything. I click on the textbox and I'm focused on the desktop...</p>

Hmmm... I'm not sure about this, but check the "Transparency" property of your main form. That's all I can think that it might be as of now...
Update: I meant the "
Opacity
" property, sorry.
Update 2: No, never mind, sorry. Right-click the "
TransparencyKey
" property, and press
```
Reset
```
to set it back to default.