Yeah, that's been coverd dozens of times in the forums. ANy control you put on the MDI parent will show ABOVE any MDI Child forms. This is because there is a hidden control in the MDI Parent that actually serves as a container for the child forms. Any control you put on the MDI Parent form will be over the top of this hidden control. You can read more about the MDIClient contorl, here[^]. If you closely enough at that documentation, you'll find it even has it's own BackgroundImage property. All you have to do is interate through the controls on your form and find the only instance of an MDIClient control, cast a variable to it, then set its BackgroundImage property.
If Me.Controls.Count Then
For Each control As Control In Me.Controls
If TypeOf control Is MdiClient Then
Dim mdiClientArea As MdiClient = CType(control, MdiClient)
mdiClientArea.BackgroundImage = New Bitmap("filepath")
Exit For
End If
Next
End If
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