I'm using an UltraExplorerBar (Style=OutlookNavigationPane), and I'm trying to retrieve the colors of the navigation pane header so I can style a related (non-Infragistics) component similarly. How do I do that, taking into consideration that UltraExplorerBar.GroupSettings.AppearancesLarge.NavigationPaneHeaderAppearance is set to default, and that the application may be styled with a style library from AppStylist?

From the answers in https://infragistics.com/community/forums/t/8760.aspx, it seems I should be looking for a UltraExplorerBar.ResolveNavigationPaneHeaderAppearance. Unfortunately, although the control does seem to have 4 different appearance resolve methods, that particular one does not seem to exist. Based on the answers in https://ko.infragistics.com/community/forums/t/22043.aspx, I have also looked for an internal method that I could call via reflection, but didn't find it. Am I looking for it the wrong place, or is there simply no way to do this?

As a workaround, I am trying to get the application style from the loaded .isl file. However, I haven't found any examples on how to do this (although the answers I referred to above does mention the possibility, they just say it's tricky and that I would have to duplicate the resolution process that the control uses). Also, the API documentation for StyleManager is not very helpful - e.g. http://help.infragistics.com/Help/Doc/WinForms/2016.1/CLR4.0/html/Infragistics4.Win.v16.1~Infragistics.Win.AppStyling.StyleManager~GetRole.html doesn't mention where to get ComponentRole from, or valid values for the roleName string. Is there any better documentation or guides somewhere?

Through guessing and trial-and-error, it seems that this does what I want to do (assuming the control is styled through application styling):

var appData = new AppearanceData();

var requestedProps = AppearancePropFlags.BackColor | AppearancePropFlags.BackColor2 | AppearancePropFlags.BackGradientStyle | AppearancePropFlags.ForeColor

StyleManager.Default.GetRole(new UltraExplorerBar().ComponentRole, "ExplorerBarNavigationPaneHeader").ResolveAppearance(ref appData, ref requestedProps, RoleState.Normal);

Can you confirm this is the right approach? And if not using the default styleset, the instead of using StyleManager,Default, then use StyleManager.FromName(styleSetName)?