[Solved] Add Background Image to Gridview HeaderRow

[Chad]

Hi,

Everything about the Office-Blue theme works for us except the Color and gradient of the header. The color we'd need to match our existing application is very specific and unfortunately not a member of "windows.media.color". So as an alternative, I'd like to tile the header background with an image. How is this possible?

I've tried to play around with the themes project but can't figure out how to add an image.

Thanks,

[Vanya Pavlova]

Hi Chad,

 
The styles used in our themes are theme specific. When you create a style targeted at any element it is applied against the default theme - Office_Black. The general approach in Silverlight to create a style targeted at any element you should follow the same pattern:

<Style TargetType="telerikGridViewHeaderRow" telerik:StyleManager.BasedOn="Telerik Theme Name">
<Setter Property="Background" Value="Red">
</Style>

Then the background of the GridViewHeaderRow will be red-coloured in the respective theme set within the BasedOn attribute. In a similar way you may use an ImageBrush element with the specified ImageSource, which represents the desired picture to paint the background of GridViewHeaderRow.

Greetings,
Vanya Pavlova
the Telerik team