I\'m a complete newbie at WPF.
At the moment I\'m making a usercontrol for form elements called \"LabeledTextbox\" which contains a label, a textbox and a textblock for
You can grab the default colours from the class SystemColors
Here is the list of all system colours: http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/system.windows.systemcolors.aspx
Default background colour of the client area:
_textbox.Background = SystemColors.WindowBrush;
Default text colour inside the client area:
_textbox.SystemColors.WindowTextBrush