the latest stories tagged with 'VisualStateManager' from DotNetKicks.com http://www.dotnetkicks.com/ en-us Atweb Publishing Ltd. http://backend.userland.com/rss DotNetKicks.com - .NET links, community driven 30 While migrating a Silverlight 2 Beta 1 control to Beta 2, I encountered some odd behavior with the VisualStateManager and I thought I would document my experience in the event that you might run into the same issue. From what I can tell, this only occurs when you have multiple instances of a control that change state by animating color properties (ColorAnimation). There may be other ways to induce this behavior, but the following is the only way I have encountered personally. Simply put, calling VisualStateManager.GoToState to does not always go to the correct state in some cases, even though no exception is thrown and a true boolean value is returned. <br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.dotnetkicks.com/kick/?url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.pagebrooks.com%2farchive%2f2008%2f06%2f30%2fvsm-strangeness.aspx"><img src="http://www.dotnetkicks.com/Services/Images/KickItImageGenerator.ashx?url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.pagebrooks.com%2farchive%2f2008%2f06%2f30%2fvsm-strangeness.aspx" border="0" alt="kick it on DotNetKicks.com" /></a> http://www.dotnetkicks.com/silverlight/VSM_Strangeness http://www.dotnetkicks.com/silverlight/VSM_Strangeness Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:19:31 GMT VisualStateManager is a powerful feature of Silverlight 2 Beta 2, thanks to Blend animation support. In this article I show how you can define your own custom states to leverage VSM for almost any particular needs. <br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.dotnetkicks.com/kick/?url=http%3a%2f%2fcodemetropolis.com%2farchive%2f2008%2f06%2f30%2funleash-the-power-of-visualstatemanager-with-custom-states.aspx"><img src="http://www.dotnetkicks.com/Services/Images/KickItImageGenerator.ashx?url=http%3a%2f%2fcodemetropolis.com%2farchive%2f2008%2f06%2f30%2funleash-the-power-of-visualstatemanager-with-custom-states.aspx" border="0" alt="kick it on DotNetKicks.com" /></a> http://www.dotnetkicks.com/silverlight/Unleash_the_power_of_VisualStateManager_with_custom_states http://www.dotnetkicks.com/silverlight/Unleash_the_power_of_VisualStateManager_with_custom_states Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:32:32 GMT