Is it possible to change the background color of column -1 of DGV control

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Can the color of the row header column of DataGridView (I believe it is column index -1) be changed in code or property settings to red or green or some other color? If so how?

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Posted 15-Mar-15 15:17pm

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Updated 15-Mar-15 15:22pm

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Member 10628309 · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-17T15:54:00

The solution is to add one line of code. (I added it to Sub Form1_Load.)
DataGridView1.EnableHeadersVisualStyles = False. With this added code the properties item RowHeadersDefaultCellStyle will respond to the selection of color in BackColor and SelectionBackColor which is what I was looking for. This in indeed the -1 column in DataGridView.