Style the MouseOver on a Silverlight/WPF button

Question

Struggling with styling the mouse over for a button ... I have managed to style the button (solid red), but I would like for it to change to solid black whenever a mouse over oc

Answer 1

In WPF:

Define a storyboard in your resources (any place accessible from the button or its style):

And in the button, create an event trigger that launches the animation:

   
      
   
   
      
          
      
   
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What you want to animate must explicitly exist. This is why the background is explicitly set a SolidColorBrush, whose color is changed by the storyboard.

Of course, this should be done through a Style.

Silverlight only supports the Loaded event on triggers, so you need to attach a real event handler to the button and start the storyboard programatically.