There was a question, an earlier question asking about disabling tap visualization in a GridView that might help you. Extracting the GridViewItem style is not available in the GridView itself, so if you want to do it yourself, you need to separately install the GridViewItem control in some page / user control and use the designer tool to edit the template. Or you can just use mine from this other question. I think you will need to change the use of ListViewItemHighlightBrush in this template.