How do I prevent WPF buttons from remaining highlighted after being clicked?

Question

When a standard WPF button is clicked, it gets highlighted in blue (probably using the blue color from whatever Windows theme is set), and it stays highlighted until you interac

Answer 1

This is the default look for Aero buttons when they have focus. You can either set Focusable="False" or use a custom Style, that doesn't render it differently when the button has focus. Something like:

xmlns:theme="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Windows.Themes;assembly=PresentationFramework.Aero"