WP7 How to change the ellipses color in the application bar? - silverlight

I have an app bar with custom colors to match the page color of our application. I have managed to get the images and app bar itself to the colors I want, but not the ellipses at the top right. I have set the background color to white and the foreground color to blue. In expression blend, it looks like the ellipses are set to blue, but when I run the app, they are white (same color as the app bar background) and basically invisible. Is there a way to change the color of the ellipses?

Not sure why it does not work for you but following code in sample application worked for me:
<shell:ApplicationBar IsVisible="True"
IsMenuEnabled="True"
ForegroundColor="Orange">
I created a new PivotApplication project for Windows Phone. In a new page, I added ForegroundColor property to application bar and it worked.

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