Changing mouseover effect

[Sam]

Apologies in advance for what probably is a stupid question. I'm trying to style the GridView and having a difficult time with it. It seems like a lot of the documentation on the website is outdated. For example, this page shows a whole bunch of properties which I do not see in Blend when I follow the exact steps that it outlines.

To my question: I'm trying to override the default styles and it seems like you have to individually override the style for each component of the gridview, right? I'm currently trying to change the mouse over color. I have the following XAML in my App.xaml:

       <Style x:Key="RadGridViewRowStyle" TargetType="{x:Type telerik:GridViewRow}">
            <Setter Property="IsTabStop" Value="False"/>
            <Setter Property="Background" Value="White"/>
            <Setter Property="BorderBrush" Value="#FFCBCBCB"/>
            <Setter Property="BorderThickness" Value="0"/>
            <Setter Property="AllowDrop" Value="True"/>
            <Setter Property="FontWeight" Value="Normal"/>
            <Setter Property="VerticalContentAlignment" Value="Stretch"/>
            <Setter Property="HorizontalContentAlignment" Value="Stretch"/>
            <Setter Property="Padding" Value="0"/>
            <Setter Property="SnapsToDevicePixels" Value="True"/>
            <Style.Triggers>
                <Trigger Property="IsMouseOver" Value="True">
                    <Setter Property="Background" Value="{StaticResource MouseOverBrush}"/>
                    <Setter Property="BorderThickness" Value="5"/>
                    <Setter Property="BorderBrush" Value="Black"/>
                </Trigger>
                <Trigger Property="IsSelected" Value="True">
                    <Setter Property="Background" Value="{StaticResource SelectedRowBrush}"/>
                    <Setter Property="BorderThickness" Value="5"/>
                    <Setter Property="BorderBrush" Value="Black"/>
                </Trigger>
            </Style.Triggers>
        </Style>

The border changes (which are just for testing) show up, but the background color remains that of the out-of-the-box theme. Any help is appreciated.

[Ivan Ivanov]

Hi,

The listed brushes on this page are not properties that can be seen in a style setter. This is a list of the resources that GridViewRow uses in its ControlTemplate. You have either to extract GridViewRow's template with Blend (Editing Control Templates in Expression Blend), or find the respective resource dictionary if you are using Implicit Styles (Editing Control Templates). Then, modify the respective brush (it should be ItemBackground_Over in your case).

Regards,
Ivan Ivanov
Telerik