Help needed :)

Question

Well...first thing to do would be to say hi. This is my first post on these forums and so i hope to find a solution to my little problem. I'm from South Africa, Cape Town in particular. I'm studying at University over here and for one of my courses i have to create a snakes and ladders game in vb.net 2003. Now i know its not too hard but here is my problem. I need to make the back color of a picturebox transparent. Why i need to do this is the picture box contains a picture of a snake (or a ladder) and it is placed on my board. The problem is that the picture box then covers my board squares :( All i want to see is the snake, not the grey backcolor of the picturebox. Any help will be very much appreciated :) Thx Gimli

Answer 1

It's a pleasure to see your signature, :-)

Ok. Coming to the topic, boxing is nothing but implicit conversion of data types. It happens in compile time and we do not worry much about it. Unboxing is a concept where in we explicitly cast a variable of some other data type to our desired type. This also happens during compile time.
Normally there is no situation where in you search for these kind of situations. It's by default ( Boxing). and Unboxing as said concept name given to type cast for variables.

Thnx,

Answer 2

It's a pleasure to see your signature, :-)

Ok. Coming to the topic, boxing is nothing but implicit conversion of data types. It happens in compile time and we do not worry much about it. Unboxing is a concept where in we explicitly cast a variable of some other data type to our desired type. This also happens during compile time.
Normally there is no situation where in you search for these kind of situations. It's by default ( Boxing). and Unboxing as said concept name given to type cast for variables.

Thnx,