Chapter 8. Styles, Triggers, and Control Templates
In this chapter we will cover the following:
- Creating and using styles
- Applying a style automatically
- Creating a property trigger
- Using data triggers
- Creating an event trigger
- Creating a multi trigger
- Using behaviors
- Replacing the control template of a progress bar
- Replacing the control template of a scroll bar
- Customizing selection in a Selector control
Introduction
Consistency in a user interface is an important trait; there are many facets of consistency, one of which is the consistent look and feel of controls. For example, all buttons should look roughly the same – similar colors, the same margins, and so on.
Styles are objects that hold property setters to provide a way to apply a bunch of settings as ...
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