How do I programmatically get the current Visual State of a WPF FrameworkElement?

Question

How do I programmatically get the current Visual State of a WPF FrameworkElement? And by state I mean the states like \"Normal\", \"MouseOver\", \"Disabled\", etc.

EDIT:

Answer 1

I feel you've missed the point of WPF here, it's the View not the Model. You should not be storing state in the View. Store state in your Model(s) and use the View to represent it. On that basis you don't need to read the state of the View, you already know it.

I know this may seem like a lot of work at the moment but it'll pay you back in spades later.