title: How to set the background color on a DialogViewController (Monotouch.Dialog)
body: <p>environment: creating an iPad application using Monotouch and the Monotouch.Dialog library.</p>
  
  <p>I've been trying to set the background color on a DialogViewController to no avail. I have multiple views in my application being loaded an unloaded. For non of them I manage to set the background color.</p>
  
  <p>What I have tried so far:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Set the background color on the main window of my application --> works fine.</li>
  <li>Create a simple UIView, give it a size, set the background color and load it into the window --> works fine.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>But as soon as I load a DialogViewController (with an associated view) the background color is always gray. The DialogViewController is used from the Monotouch.Dialog framework.</p>
  
  <p>I'm pushing the DialogViewController onto a navigation controller to show a set of buttons laid out in a table view.</p>
  
  <p>I must be missing out on something fundamental ! I have been looking through the Monotouch.Dialog code and tried a couple of other things, but nothing fixed my problem so far.</p>
  
  <p>Any help highly appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>boris</p>