BarItem.Foreground Property

Gets or sets the brush used to paint the BarItem’s foreground. This is a dependency property.

Namespace: DevExpress.Xpf.Bars

Assembly: DevExpress.Xpf.Core.v25.1.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Wpf.Core

Declaration

C#

public Brush Foreground { get; set; }

VB.NET

Public Property Foreground As Brush

Property Value

Type	Description
Brush	A Brush object used to paint the BarItem’s foreground.

Remarks

The following code sample specifies the ToolBarControl‘s Background, and BarButtonItems‘s Background, Foreground, BorderBrush, and BorderThickness properties:

XAML

<Window ...
  xmlns:dxb="http://schemas.devexpress.com/winfx/2008/xaml/bars"> 
    <dxb:ToolBarControl VerticalAlignment="Top" Background="Gainsboro">
      <dxb:BarButtonItem Content="Cut" Background="LightCoral"/>
      <dxb:BarButtonItem Content="Copy" Foreground="DarkGray"/>
      <dxb:BarButtonItem Content="Paste" BorderBrush="Aqua" BorderThickness="2"/> 
    </dxb:ToolBarControl>
</Window>

Note

The property is supported in the following DevExpress themes:

Theme Family	Themes
Windows 11	Dark, Light
Windows 10	Dark, Light
Office 2019	Black, Colorful, Dark Gray, White, HighContrast
Visual Studio 2019	Blue, Dark, Light
Office 2016 SE	Black, Colorful, Dark Gray, White
Visual Studio 2017	Blue, Dark, Light

Related GitHub Examples

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XAML

mvvm-application-with-wpf-bars/CS/Bars_in_MVVM_Application/MainWindow.xaml#L51

            IsEnabled="{DXBinding 'SelectedIssue != null'}">
<dxb:BarCheckItem Content="Low" GroupIndex="0" Background="Green" Foreground="White"
                  Command="{DXCommand Execute='SelectedIssue.Priority = $local:Priority.Low'}"