how can i be able to make the parent node of the treeview non selectable. 

+ Parent <-- non selectable
|-----item 1 <-- selectable
|-----item 2 <-- selectable

and what i mean by non selectable is even when i hover on it, there is no hover animation as if it was disabled but not greyed out.

thanks!

Hi Adrian Pay,

 In order to prevent the selection you can use the PreviewSelectionChanged event and set e.Handled = true if the "clicked" item should not be selected. As for the MouseOver/Selection colors you can check out this forum and the attached project in it. Please let us know if this helped you.

All the best,
Petar Mladenov
the Telerik team