WPF ListView Inactive Selection Color

The answer will in some cases solve the problem, but is not ideal as it breaks when the control is disabled/readonly and it also overrides the color schemes, rather than taking advantage of them. My suggestion is to add the following in the ListBox tags instead:

What this will do is set the Highlight background color on the list box item whenever it is selected (regardless of the control state).

My answer is based on help from the answer already given, along with the following blog: http://blogs.vbcity.com/xtab/archive/2009/06/29/9344.aspx