Combobox Mouseover

Question

I would like to change the background (mouseover) color of my combobox when i move with a mouse over it.

I have read many post on stackoverflow and

Answer 1

Naive Solution: Just add brush to the resources and reference it from the Background property (via StaticResource binding) of the ComboBox:

Problem: After item is selected the background color is reset back to the default color. The only solution to fix this is to override the default template of the combobox.

Fix: Modify default ComboBox template. ComboBox default template is present on msdn. Here is the link - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms752094(v=vs.100).aspx. See "ComboBox ControlTemplate Example" section.

Related links:

MouseOver highlighting style returning to default after a second (Caused by Aero?)

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/wpf/thread/a18891e9-8879-4819-9679-247341782f60