Changing the button background color in the event handler with c#

Question

I don't get it.  The following code should work perfectly... in theory.  Why isn't it recognizing the color input?

button1.Background = new SolidColorBrush(Windows.UI.Color.Red);

Answer 1

Other than there not being a Color.Red (did you mean Colors.Red?) that works for me. (And other than hardcoding colors, but this is just test code. In production you'd pull the color from a resource and respect high contrast settings).

Can you provide more context? Do you have the button template or contented so that the background isn't visible?

--Rob

Answer 2

Hello huge_newbie,

You can change your code:

button1.Background = new SolidColorBrush(Windows.UI.Colors.Red);

Answer 3

Talking about feeling silly.  Missing an "s"!  Thanks guys.