Remove default mouseover/focus effect on textboxes

Question

I have created a kind of custom TextBox in Expression Blend. I have changed the fill of the background and border to a gradient, and added in a Shadow Effect.

Answer 1

Does you custom style set the OverridesDefaultStyle property to true? I believe this should prevent default values being drawn from the default style.

If so, and this isn't working (or you want to use your own border), all I can think is that you will need to override the default styling mechanism for the event of the appropriate property changing using a Trigger in your Style / ControlTemplate: