How to create a form with a border, but no title bar? (like volume control on Windows 7)
In Windows 7, the volume mixer windows has a specific style, with a thick, transparent border, but no title bar. How do i recreate that window style in a winforms window? I tried setting Text to string.Empty, and ControlBox to false, which removes the titlebar, but then the border also disappears: form.Text = string.Empty; form.ControlBox = false; form.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.SizableToolWindow; For a fixed size window, you should still use FormBorderStyle.SizableToolWindow , but you can override the form's WndProc to ignore non-client hit tests (which are used to switch to the sizing