Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Understanding Triggers

Until now you saw how styles can be applied to controls without condition. This is useful, but it is more useful for deciding when to apply a style. The easiest example is to consider a button; you apply a background color that you might want to change when the mouse pointer passes over the button, and this behavior should be replicated for each button in the UI via styles. To conditionally apply styles, you use triggers. A trigger essentially represents a condition that enables applying a particular style when the condition is evaluated as True. Triggers are defined within a Style.Triggers collection, and each of them requires specifying the property affected by the condition and a Boolean value (True or False) that determines ...