Resolved DataGridView Row Header color

[amnon]

hello,

Is it possible to remove selection from Row Header and Column Header ? or at least use the same color as selection?
I tried changing the selection color by setting

        DataGridView1.ColumnHeadersDefaultCellStyle.SelectionBackColor = Color.Black
        DataGridView1.RowHeadersDefaultCellStyle.SelectionBackColor = Color.Black

 

[JohnH]

You have to set this to False to change header colors:

DataGridView.EnableHeadersVisualStyles Property (System.Windows.Forms)

Gets or sets a value indicating whether row and column headers use the visual styles of the user's current theme if visual styles are enabled for the application.

learn.microsoft.com

grid.EnableHeadersVisualStyles = False
Dim rowheadStyle = grid.RowHeadersDefaultCellStyle
rowheadStyle.SelectionBackColor = rowheadStyle.BackColor

 

[amnon]

Thank You very much JohnH

 

[jmcilhinney]

This is an example of why you should ALWAYS read the documentation if something doesn't work the way you expect. The documentation for the DataGridView.ColumnHeadersDefaultCellStyle property says this:

If visual styles are enabled and EnableHeadersVisualStyles is set to true, all header cells except the TopLeftHeaderCell are painted using the current theme and the ColumnHeadersDefaultCellStyle values are ignored.

which would have answered your question immediately in the same way. You can go directly from VS to the documentation for any type or member using the F1 key (context-sensitive Help) and you should have the documentation home page bookmarked/favourited in your browser. Here is the Australian version I use, so you can just change the culture appropriately. You'll be able to answer many of your own questions using the documentation and you'll learn lots of other stuff besides. We'll still be here for the stuff you can't find or can't understand.