How can I set a custom background color in WorkSpace plugin?

When I add some components to the WorkSpaceViewItemUserControl via the Visual Studio Designer or pro-grammatically, such as panels, listboxes, labels, no mater what the background color I select for the components, when plugin is running in the Client all these components have black backgrounds. Even setting the label’s foreground color to white renders the labels invisible.

I tried to change the background color of the topmost component in the tree: WorkSpaceViewItemUserControl from “Transparent” to something else, but this did not fix the problem

I believe this is due to the UserControls being controlled by the “Theme”.

See - Introduction to Smart Client Theme in the MIP Documentation.