Handle Theming Issues between Win XP and Win 7 machines in .NET

Question

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.

Answer 1

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)