The problematic themes are: Aqua HighContrastBlack VisualStudio2012Dark VisualStudio2012Light Windows8 How to reproduce: private void RadForm1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { var theme = new Windows8Theme(); ThemeResolutionService.ApplicationThemeName = "Windows8"; GridViewTextBoxColumn textBoxColumn = new GridViewTextBoxColumn(); textBoxColumn.Name = "Test"; this.radGridView1.Columns.Add(textBoxColumn); for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) { this.radGridView1.Rows.AddNew(); } } Workaround: private void RadForm1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { var theme = new Windows8Theme(); ThemeResolutionService.ApplicationThemeName = "Windows8"; GridViewTextBoxColumn textBoxColumn = new GridViewTextBoxColumn(); textBoxColumn.Name = "Test"; this.radGridView1.Columns.Add(textBoxColumn); this.radGridView1.BeginUpdate(); for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) { this.radGridView1.Rows.AddNew(); } this.radGridView1.EndUpdate(); int lastRow = this.radGridView1.Rows.Count - 1; this.radGridView1.Rows[lastRow].IsCurrent = true; }