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WPF ListBox: Setting Background Color of the Selected Item

March 22, 2011
.NET C# WPF

The trick to to overriding the default behavior of the selection color in list boxes is to provide custom brushes for pre-defined system resources.

This code snippet will do the trick:

<ListBox.Resources>
  <SolidColorBrush x:Key="{x:Static SystemColors.ControlBrushKey}" Color="Red" />
  <SolidColorBrush x:Key="{x:Static SystemColors.HighlightBrushKey}" Color="Green" />
</ListBox.Resources>