How to make the parent form be in disable color?

Hi
let say i have 2 forms form 1 contain many controls and can open form 2 to display a message for example.
Is there any way that when form2 is displayed i can make form1 to be in dark color like dark gray?
See attached image for example.



thanks

That might be done with WPF. You can make a form transparent.

You may want to look at the form's Opacity property.
A search on "translucent forms vb.net" on google ( or even in this forum ) would also turn up results :)