Creating a property trigger
A trigger enables you to change property values when certain conditions are satisfied. It can also enable you to take actions based on property values by allowing you to dynamically change the appearance and/or the behavior of your control without writing additional codes in the code-behind classes.
The most common trigger is the property trigger, which can be simply defined in XAML with a <Trigger> element. It triggers when a specific property on the owner control changes to match a specified value.
In this recipe, we will learn about property triggers with a suitable example.
Getting ready
Open your Visual Studio instance and create a new WPF application project called CH06.PropertyTriggerDemo.
How to do it...
To work with the property trigger, we will use a Label control in this example and trigger the system to change its various properties on mouse hover. Follow these simple steps:
- Open the
MainWindow.xamlpage and add the followingLabelcontrol inside the...
