Styling Microsoft’s WPF datagrid
Microsoft’s WPF datagrid has a lot of properties and styles you can tweak to get it looking right (if you are a designer). Below, find my cheat sheet to styling the grid. It is not 100% comprehensive but it gets you far and has a few very useful tips & gotchas. At the highest level in the DataGrid , you can change the look & feel by setting some of these: Property Type Values Default AlternatingRowBackground Brush Any Brush Null Background Brush Any Brush Theme default ColumnHeaderHeight Double 0 to any positive double NaN ColumnHeaderStyle Style Any Style Null ColumnWidth DataGridLength 0 to any positive double, Auto, *, SizeToCells, SizeToHeader SizeToHeader HeadersVisibility DataGridHeadersVisibility All, Row, Column, None All MaxColumnWidth Double 0 to any positive double Positive Infinity MaxRowHeight Double 0 to any positive double Positive Infinity MinColumnWidth Double 0 to any positive double 20 MinRowHeight Double 0 to any positive double 0