Setting the bar of a CTabCtrl to transparent - mfc

I have a CTabCtrl and I am using WindowsBlinds to skin my computer GUI.
This is a MFC CDialog object.
Is there anything I can do in code so that the grey area renders transparent?
I tried setting the transparent resource property but it did not work.

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