Is it possible to remove the tap effect on an item inside a gridview?
Removing storyboard of visualstate "PointerOver" and "PointerOverPressed" in "GridViewItemStyle" will disable pointer hover and pressed animations.
sample source code: http://files.cnblogs.com/Tealcwu/ItemContainerStyleSelectorDemo.zip
please refer to http://www.cnblogs.com/Tealcwu/archive/2012/11/07/2759132.html, the last section.