Why am I getting “Control does not support transparent background colors”?

Question

I am working on a C# - Winforms application and attempting to set the background colour of a read-only text box like so...

txtMyBox.BackColor = Color.FromNam         


        

Answer 1

A bit late - but eventually helps this someone who - like me - found this page according to the OPs question:

I got this error when Setting a Winforms Splitter background color which was generated by a

Color.FromArgb(0xC9,0xD9,0xEB);

The solution was to generate the Color value instead with the following helper method:

ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#C9D9EB") 

This avoids generating a transparency Information.