Sorry about the previous post, I was looking at a different thread when I posted this comment.

 I am however having an issues with this functionality. I want to have the active row selected, but I have a custom color format on a single column that needs to be maintained.

 For example here is what I want to happen: When a row is selected that row should be highlighted and the column that has the specific backColor to stay that color whether the cell is activated or not. Is there a simple way of maintaining this functionality? 

 Sorry about previous post , I did not saw your solution on that thread ,  indeed

      using 

                aCell = (UltraGridCell)drawParams.Element.GetContext(typeof(UltraGridCell);

in a customize Filter that implements  IUIElementDrawFilter interface solved this problem .

                                    Thanks for helping    Mike

 I have tryied to apply you DrawFilter example "ultrawingrid_removing_selected_color_cs.zip" but because in my case I have to select a row not a cell :

 e.Layout.Override.CellClickAction = CellClickAction.RowSelect;

drawParams.Element.SelectableItem   become  a UltraGridRow  and changing   drawParams.AppearanceData.BackColor  will have an efect for the entire row.

Then the only alternative would be to use a DrawFilter. 

 Color.Empty solution does not worked .

  SelectedAppearance it`s fine for the selected rows (cells) , but I dont have a similar property for the active cells and I don`t want to dezactivate  activerow appearance because I  have a blue border around it.