Setting BackgroundColor Of Report Elements In SSRS

Has anyone seen the error:


[rsInvalidColor] The value of the BackgroundColor property for the textbox €˜textbox14€™ is €œTransparent€?, which is not a valid BackgroundColor.


This is appearing when I set the BackgroundColor property in a SSRS report using an expression. What I'm trying to do is have the colour of the text and background returned by the stored procedure that returns the data for use in Matrix and Table. But the problem seems to relate to all controls in SSRS 2005.

Steps to reproduce are create a new report, add a TextBox.

Go to properties of the textbox and select the Backgroundcolor and select Expression...

Then add the expression:

="Transparent"

Transparent doesn't seem to be a constant, but does appear to be a value you are allowed to selected (and is the default) from the drop down in the background colour.

The work-around is to use White, which works if you don't use a background image or change the background colour of the page.

However if you do us the "Transaparent" colour, then it does return the correct effect, but generates an error in the Output window within the development environment. I'm just ignoring the error for the time being. but has anyone else seen this error.

Andy