How to change combobox background color (not just the drop down list part)

Question

In a winform application running on windows 7 I want the change the background color of a combobox to highlight it. The comboxbox has a DropDownStyle of DropDownList.

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Answer 1

Since you lose the 3D effects anyway with Igby Largeman's solution you're better off changing the FlatStyle property to Flat. The background color seems to be obeyed even in Windows 7 that way, and without re-implementing any low-level events.

I would consider this a bug on Microsoft's part...