Override theme brush Windows 10 UWP

Question

I\'m trying to override some style-colors in Windows 10 but I cannot get it to work.

My app.xaml looks like this:

Answer 1

The styles you are setting are for Windows 8 apps. The styles used by Universal Windows apps are greatly simplified.

The easiest way to find them is to add your ListBox to a page, right click on it in the designer, and select Edit Template... Create a copy of the template and look at the names used.

All of the controls now use the same brushes when possible rather than having control-specific ones.

For example, the ListBox uses the following brushes for its Foreground, Background, and BorderBrush:

• SystemControlForegroundBaseHighBrush
• SystemControlBackgroundChromeMediumLowBrush
• SystemControlForegroundBaseHighBrush