


Since RadMultiColumnComboBox is a compound control, it uses the theming of RadGridView. Therefore, in order to make a theme for RadMultiColumnComboBox, you should change the styles for RadMultiColumnComboBox and for RadGridView. The following example will show you how to edit the predefined ControlDefault theme for RadMultiColumnComboBox.




4. First, we can change the appearance of the RadMultiColumnComboBox element. Let's change its BorderPrimitive.ForeColor to Light Green. To do that, we can just change the fore color of the already applied repository item style.

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5. Now, we can edit the styles for the RadGridView. For this example we will change the hover row back color to a light green. This can be achieved by selecting the GridDataCellElement and changing the BackColor of the GridDataCellHoverFill repository item.

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7. Now, you can apply your custom theme to RadMultiColumnComboBox by using the demonstrated approach in the following link: Using custom themes

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