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Removing white border on a ToolStrip

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.

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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.

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myToolStripControl.Renderer = new ToolStripOverride();

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5 Responses to “Removing white border on a ToolStrip”

  1. Fahad // August 8th, 2009 at 10:53 am

    Simple and straight to the point… and most importantly the solution worked as is. Thanks.

  2. Jan // January 4th, 2012 at 10:40 pm

    Thank’s a lot!! :)

  3. Hsi // March 3rd, 2012 at 8:00 pm

    gr8 on thanks bro. simple and cut to the point.

  4. Knuckles // April 6th, 2012 at 2:56 am

    Any way to get this working on VB.NET 2010?

  5. Beno Gorancic // April 12th, 2012 at 10:18 pm

    Hi Knuckles,

    The same can be achieved using Visual Basic .NET. I have tested it and confirmed it works.

    If you are not sure how to translate the code to .Net use one of the websites that can translate C# to .Net.

    First create the class ToolStripOverride. Then inside your Form1_Load you write something like ToolStrip1.Renderer = New OverrideControls.ToolStripOverride()

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