ListView Selected Item Style Override

Question

I have a WPF ListView that I\'m trying to apply a custom style too... primarily I want to make the background of the listview box transparent with no border... and I want to

Answer 1

This approach of trying to override the system colours doesn't work on Windows 8 and later.

You need to modify the ControlTemplate of the ListViewItem container.

You can copy the default template into your XAML markup by right-clicking on the ListView in design mode in Visual Studio or in Blend and choose Edit Additional Templates->Edit Generated Item Container (ItemContainerStyle) and then edit it as per your requirements by for example changing the Color properties of the SolidColorBrushes: