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The biggest limitation of triggers in WPF is that except for EventTrigger they only work in styles and templates, I always find myself in situation where just putting a trigger directly in my window or control class will save me a lot of work – but it just can’t be done.
Just a few days ago I accidently run across a simple workaround, this is probably the best kept secret in WPF and is hidden in a little blue box at the end of this post on animation in M-V-VM.
Just define a DataTemplate with whatever you want to show and your triggers (DataTemplate supports all trigger types: Trigger, DataTrigger and EventTrigger) and drop the data template anywhere by using this XAML:
<ContentPresenter ContentTemplate="{StaticResource myTemplate}" Content="{Binding}" />
posted @ Monday, March 16, 2009 5:06 PM