Hi Brian, I have searched but im not experience in this area and arnt sure what to look for, if you were to help me solve it i will compensate you for your time.

Cheers

i would like to offer a fix to who ever want to simply cancel this for no color and find out there are other phases to ignore on the way

DrawPhase IUIElementDrawFilter.GetPhasesToFilter(ref UIElementDrawParams drawParams)
{
return DrawPhase.BeforeDrawBackColor | DrawPhase.BeforeDrawBorders | DrawPhase.BeforeDrawFocus;
}

also make sure that Color.Empty is not being replaced on the consructor...

Ok i got it ;-) Cheers Brian

I hate to be a bugger, but i couldnt convert this to VB in any converter, any chance you would be able to show the VB version?

Cheers

P.S i will contact the sales dep and tell them why im paying them and because of your helping me.

Make the check payable to "Infragistics, Inc." :)

this.ultraComboEditor.DropDownStyle = DropDownStyle.DropDownList;
this.ultraComboEditor.DrawFilter = new SelectionColorDrawFilter( Color.Red );

public class SelectionColorDrawFilter : IUIElementDrawFilter
{
    Color selectionColor = Color.Empty;
    public SelectionColorDrawFilter( Color selectionColor )
    {
        this.selectionColor = selectionColor.IsEmpty == false ? selectionColor : SystemColors.Highlight;
    }

    #region IUIElementDrawFilter Members

    bool IUIElementDrawFilter.DrawElement(DrawPhase drawPhase, ref UIElementDrawParams drawParams)
    {
        if ( drawParams.Element is Infragistics.Win.EditorWithTextDisplayTextUIElement )
        {
            using ( SolidBrush brush = new SolidBrush(this.selectionColor) )
            {
                drawParams.Graphics.FillRectangle( brush, drawParams.Element.RectInsideBorders );
            }

            return true;
        }

        return false;
    }

    DrawPhase IUIElementDrawFilter.GetPhasesToFilter(ref UIElementDrawParams drawParams)
    {
        return DrawPhase.BeforeDrawBackColor;
    }

    #endregion
}