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Asked: May 27, 20262026-05-27T00:30:10+00:00 2026-05-27T00:30:10+00:00

My WPF app which is hosted in winform app shows the dersied highlighted color

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My WPF app which is hosted in winform app shows the dersied highlighted color of a selected Xamdatagrid row in Win XP, however when run on Win 7 machine the color changes to lighter shade rendering the highlighted row as unreadable.

Any guidelines to approach this.

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    2026-05-27T00:30:10+00:00Added an answer on May 27, 2026 at 12:30 am

    That is because you are using system defined colors. I’m afraid you have to introduce your own theming:

    http://wpfthemes.codeplex.com/

    Of course you can still use the colors you want by just creating a custom theme.

    You can also try to force using specific windows theme:

    http://arbel.net/2006/11/03/forcing-wpf-to-use-a-specific-windows-theme/

    (Luna is WinXp)

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