set RowElement.BackColor in Telerik RadGridView (WinForms) in RowFormatting event

Question

Is there some trick to setting the back color of the row in the Telerik WinForms RadGridView at runtime in the RowFormatting event? I am able to set the RowElement.Font in this event but not the RowElement.BackColor. I have stepped through the code in the debugger and am certain that the line is being executed (the event is properly "wired up").

void grid_RowFormatting(object sender, Telerik.WinControls.UI.RowFormattingEventArgs e)
    {
         if   (e.RowElement.RowInfo.Cells["CODE"].Value.ToString() == "X"))
                {
                    // the following line is executed but has no apparent effect
                    e.RowElement.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Aqua;
                }

     }

Answer 1

Your code looks good, you just need to set DrawFill to true Add this:

e.RowElement.DrawFill = true;      

Full example:

void grid_RowFormatting(object sender, Telerik.WinControls.UI.RowFormattingEventArgs e)
    {
         if   (e.RowElement.RowInfo.Cells["CODE"].Value.ToString() == "X"))
                {   
                     e.RowElement.DrawFill = true;  
                     e.RowElement.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Aqua;
                }

     }