Changing a formwindows backcolor from a panel

I have a panel that is docked to the right side of a windows开发者_StackOverflow form. I set a color with a setting on the panel but I want to then update the main form (not the panel) backcolor to the new setting. But when I use me.backcolor = setting it changes the panels backcolor.

This is also with VB.net windows forms with Visual Studios 2008

Thanks

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You have to change the parent's BackColor using:

me.Parent.Backcolor = color;