Trying to change the Border Color of a label

Question

I'm working in VB, VS2008, winforms. I've got some labels to create, and I'm using the BorderStyle = FixedSingle.

Is there any way to change the color of this border? It is always defaulting to black.

Answer 1

If you don't want to create a custom control you can try this:

Hook up to the Label's paint event.

void label1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e) {     ControlPaint.DrawBorder(e.Graphics, label1.DisplayRectangle, Color.Blue, ButtonBorderStyle.Solid); } 

Taken from here by Andrej Tozon

Answer 2

I combined the solutions from robin.ellis and orandov to get a result that worked the best for me. I created a custom control that inherited the Label object and then overrode the OnPaint event.

Public Class nomLabel    Inherits Label    Protected Overrides Sub OnPaint(ByVal e As PaintEventArgs)       MyBase.OnPaint(e)        ControlPaint.DrawBorder(e.Graphics, e.ClipRectangle, myColor, ButtonBorderStyle.Solid)    End Sub  End Class 

Thanks for the help!