wpf: DataGrid disable selected row styles - or row selecting

Question

I am seeing a lot of examples on how to style Selected rows in DataGrid such as this one:

How can I set the color of a selected row in DataGrid

Can i just di

Answer 1

I'll answer the second question first: to disable selection of rows, you could change the RowStyle of your DataGrid.

However, this changes the text style as the row itself is now "disabled". It also doesn't negate the fact that a user can still right click on the row to select it. If you really wanted to disable any kind of interaction with the datagrid's rows, you could do the following:

As the rows are still enabled, the style of the text does not change.

Now if you wanted to only change the style of selected row but leave the functionality alone, you could do the following (which is basically the same as @Dan Stevens' answer). The ControlTextBrushKey is the brush that is used by the system to color text items. Please look at this answer for an explanation between DynamicResource and StaticResource.

It is important to note that the above solution does not change the style of DataGridRowHeader when the row is selected, as can be seen below (the first row is selected).