Removing white border on a ToolStrip

Beno Gorancic — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:30:59 +0000

If you have ever used the ToolStrip control and changed its background colour, you will have noticed that it has a white border around it as show in the picture. This problem can be overcome with a simple override.

Create a new file ToolStripOverride.cs and copy the following code.

using System.Windows.Forms;
 
namespace OverrideControls
{
    public class ToolStripOverride : ToolStripProfessionalRenderer
    {
        public ToolStripOverride() { }
 
        protected override void OnRenderToolStripBorder(ToolStripRenderEventArgs e) { }
    }
}

Then inside the class where you have your ToolStrip control add the following line to the constructor.

1	myToolStripControl.Renderer = new ToolStripOverride();

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Removing white border on a ToolStrip