Need help with ComboBox DropDown & Popup

[naumenkoff]

Hello everyone.
I can't figure out how the ComboBox works: for some reason, it has a gray background, and I can't get rid of it.
For example, in NavigationView, I able to remove it by overriding NavigationViewContentBackground to Transparent.
But here it's a completely different situation: I've read tons of articles and looked through the code of many apps that use ComboBox, where it is rendered properly, but I still haven't found a solution.

What I am referring to:

• In the Settings app (Windows 11), ComboBox has an opaque, non-gray background.
  
• In the MVVM Toolkit Sample App (The Final Result, SubredditWidget), ComboBox has a transparent blurred, non-gray background.
  
• DropDownButton

<DropDownButton Content="Say">
    <DropDownButton.Flyout>
        <MenuFlyout Placement="Bottom">
            <MenuFlyoutItem Text="Hello" />
            <MenuFlyoutItem Text="World" />
        </MenuFlyout>
    </DropDownButton.Flyout>
</DropDownButton>

But for me, everything looks completely different. I don't know how this happened. And why no solutions are working!

ComboBox

It differs from DropDownButton.

<ComboBox>
    <ComboBoxItem Content="Hello"/>
    <ComboBoxItem Content="World"/>
</ComboBox>

ComboBox with overridden ComboBoxDropDownBackground

<ComboBox>
    <ComboBoxItem Content="Hello"/>
    <ComboBoxItem Content="World"/>
    <ComboBox.Resources>
        <SolidColorBrush x:Key="ComboBoxDropDownBackground" Color="{ThemeResource AcrylicInAppFillColorDefaultBrush}" />
    </ComboBox.Resources>
</ComboBox>

I referred to these Issues:

• ComboBox popup of items to select is translucent in 1.1.0 p3 #7176
• Acrylic does not work if mica is enabled #7200
• Menu Flyout Acrylic doens't work in Windows 11 #8396
• ShouldConstrainToRootBounds = False disables backdrop #8657
• Acrylic Brush doesn't work in combobox #9523

Versions:

• Nuget: WindowsAppSDK 1.6.240923002, Runtime: 1.6.1
• net8.0-windows10.0.26100.0
• Windows 11 Pro 26100.2033

[whiskhub]

It's a bug in WinUI 3. Currently only in WinUI 2 (UWP) there is an acrylic background, sadly.