WPF: How do I programmatically style my ListView so that all rows have a certain background color and height? -

i can't seem wrap head around something. have following logic in code:

namespace wpftesting {     /// <summary>     /// interaction logic mainwindow.xaml     /// </summary>     public partial class mainwindow : window     {          observablecollection<message> messages = new observablecollection<message>();          public mainwindow()         {             initializecomponent();             messages.add(new message(datetime.now, "this test."));             listview listview = new listview();             gridview gridview = new gridview();             listview.view = gridview;             gridviewcolumn timestampcolumn = new gridviewcolumn();             timestampcolumn.displaymemberbinding = new binding("date");             gridviewcolumnheader timestampheader = new gridviewcolumnheader();             timestampheader.content = "time";             timestampcolumn.header = timestampheader;             gridview.columns.add(timestampcolumn);             gridviewcolumn messagecolumn = new gridviewcolumn();             messagecolumn.displaymemberbinding = new binding("text");             gridviewcolumnheader messageheader = new gridviewcolumnheader();             messageheader.content = "message";             messagecolumn.header = messageheader;             gridview.columns.add(messagecolumn);             binding binding = new binding();             binding.source = messages;             listview.setbinding(itemscontrol.itemssourceproperty, binding);             maingrid.children.add(listview);         }          public class message         {              public message(datetime adate, string atext)             {                 date = adate;                 text = atext;             }              public datetime date { get; set; }             public string text { get; set; }         }     } } 

how programmatically style listview rows have background color , height? note, want avoid doing foreach loop on listview's items list , setting each listviewitem's properties, because list may have many items , expensive. instead, there not way programmatically using style class, or perhaps run-time logic?

i figured out. can way example:

style style = new style(); style.targettype = typeof(listviewitem); style.setters.add(new setter(listviewitem.backgroundproperty, brushes.pink)); listview.itemcontainerstyle = style; 

edit: can conditionally set style on listview's items using trigger values data set. found useful, may others well:

datatrigger trigger = new datatrigger(); trigger.binding = new binding("text"); trigger.value = "this test."; trigger.setters.add(new setter(listviewitem.backgroundproperty, brushes.pink)); style.triggers.add(trigger); listview.itemcontainerstyle = style; 

the above code set background of row under condition text field set "this test."