I have a design requirement where all the rows of my datagrid are different colours to represent different status's of a row.  I have been able to do this by using TemplateColumns containing StackPanels that have their background properties bound to a Status property of the rows DataItem using a ValueConverter.  The problem I have is that you now cant tell if a row is selected or being hovered over so I wanted to put a thick black border around any rows that have been selected.  The problem is I have no idea how to do this and was wondering if anyone could give me some pointers or ideas assuming its even possible.

Hi Tregarick,

Actually, MouseOver Selected state is already defined by default. To modify its behavior,  we recommend you use Blend.   For example,

          <Rectangle x:Name="BackgroundRectangle" Opacity="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" Grid.RowSpan="2" Fill="#FFBADDE9"/>    //background.
          <System_Windows_Controls_Primitives:DataGridRowHeader x:Name="RowHeader" Grid.RowSpan="3" System_Windows_Controls_Primitives:DataGridFrozenGrid.IsFrozen="True"/>
          <System_Windows_Controls_Primitives:DataGridCellsPresenter x:Name="CellsPresenter" Grid.Column="1" System_Windows_Controls_Primitives:DataGridFrozenGrid.IsFrozen="True"/>
          <System_Windows_Controls_Primitives:DataGridDetailsPresenter x:Name="DetailsPresenter" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1"/>
          <Rectangle Height="1" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" x:Name="BottomGridLine" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="2"/>
         

How to use Blend, you'd better take a look at the videos here.

Best regards,

Jonathan

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