Setting colour of application bar in C# - windows-phone-7

Question

I define my ApplicationBar in code like that:
private void BuildApplicationBar()
{
// Set the page's ApplicationBar to a new instance of ApplicationBar.
ApplicationBar = new ApplicationBar();
ApplicationBar.Opacity = 0.8;
ApplicationBar.ForegroundColor = Color.FromArgb(0, 138, 204, 34);
// Create a new button and set the text value to the localized string from AppResources.
ApplicationBarIconButton CheckInExitAppBarButton = new ApplicationBarIconButton(new Uri("icons/check_in.png", UriKind.Relative));
CheckInExitAppBarButton.Text = AppResource.CheckInExit;
ApplicationBar.Buttons.Add(CheckInExitAppBarButton);
CheckInExitAppBarButton.Click += new EventHandler(CheckInExitAppBarButton_Click);
}
Atfer that I can see that color of icons changed, but I can't see text under them. When I do this without ApplicationBar.Color I can see both icon + text but in white which doesn't interest me

Answer 1

The text uses the alpha value of the foreground color, and you're setting it to 0 (transparent). Set it to 255 instead and it'll work:
private void BuildApplicationBar()
{
// Set the page's ApplicationBar to a new instance of ApplicationBar.
ApplicationBar = new ApplicationBar();
ApplicationBar.Opacity = 0.8;
ApplicationBar.ForegroundColor = Color.FromArgb(255, 138, 204, 34);
// Create a new button and set the text value to the localized string from AppResources.
ApplicationBarIconButton CheckInExitAppBarButton = new ApplicationBarIconButton(new Uri("icons/check_in.png", UriKind.Relative));
CheckInExitAppBarButton.Text = AppResource.CheckInExit;
ApplicationBar.Buttons.Add(CheckInExitAppBarButton);
CheckInExitAppBarButton.Click += new EventHandler(CheckInExitAppBarButton_Click);
}