Seeker Sidebar 4 – Styles, Control Templates, and Visual States

Live Example:

http://www.adefwebserver.com/Richard/ooNaEyeDevelopmentv2/ooNaEyeDevelopmentTestPage.html

I’ve been promising to get to Visual States, and this time I’m actually going to do it. In the process I cover creating a templated control from scratch, and technically I achieve my goal of not having to type in the visual states. From there I show how much control a designer has over the many versions of the UI of a templated control, entirely in Blend design view – including how to mess up the xaml if you edit the wrong thing – same choice, different menus. If you don’t already know how to create templated controls, and you want a detailed description with pictures of every step and misstep, read on:

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from Richard Waddell                                  more here

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