#207 – Setting a Control’s Background Color

The Control class is a base class for all user interface elements that a user interacts with.  (This includes the Window class).

Control includes a Background property that you can set to cause the background of the control to be filled in, or colored.

Background’s type is System.Windows.Media.Brush, which means that you specify not just a background color, but an instance of a Brush object.

There are several kinds of brushes, but the most common is the SolidColorBrush, which allows setting the background to a solid color.

In the example below, we set the background color of a Window to the color PowderBlue.

<Window x:Class="WpfApplication2.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">
    <Window.Background>
        <SolidColorBrush Color="PowderBlue"/>
    </Window.Background>
    <Grid>
        <Label Content="Hi!"/>
    </Grid>
</Window>

Here’s the result:

Here are some other examples of setting the Background property for various controls: