states and visualstatemanager

[Wavioli]

Anyone got any good info on these subjects, seems like theres nothing out there at all of any use.

Basically we're trying to change the state of a control when a certain event happens (in this case a page scanning or a document uploading)

We've managed to change the states though blends built in gotostateAction through a mouse click, but we cant get it to change (well we have but it doesnt change visually, which is kinda the whole point!)

any clues would be much appreciated!

Wav

[kirupa]

In the code behind, you can add some code that looks similar to the following: VisualStateManager.GoToState("statename", true);

That will allow you to create custom states and have them be triggered at a certain point in time. You can even use the GoToStateAction behavior if you want as well.

I will write a tutorial about this shortly, for this is a good topic that (I agree) hasn't gotten much coverage.

Cheers!
Kirupa