Chapter 7. Behaviors in Silverlight

Behaviors in Silverlight
  • What Behaviors are

  • How to use Behaviors

  • How to create your own custom Behavior

What Are Behaviors?

Behaviors were introduced with Blend 3 and have become an integral part of Silverlight development. Prior to Behaviors a developer or designer would have to switch over to Visual Studio to do things like control a MediaElement, hook up a Visual State of a Visual State Group, make an object draggable, change a property on the fly, or start a Storyboard. With the addition of Behaviors, that all changed. Now developers and designers can perform these actions by simply dragging a Behavior from the Asset Library right onto ...

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