Silverlight: How to make my custom control act like a button

Question

Hi there,

I have a custom control and I would like it to act like a button i.e. when you hover over it changes a little so it seems "clickable" to the user

I actually acheived this using the MouseEnter and MouseLeave events and changing the gradient but...

is there a way to apply a style to the user control and say something like TargetType="button" so that it "acts" like a button automatically?

I feel the way i'm doing it is not the best way

Answer 1

In Expression Blend 3, you can edit the different states (Normal, Hover, pressed, selected etc), of any control how you need it. just select your control and click Edit copy template

Answer 2

Add border object and sets its visibility on mousehover and leave event on the control (This will look like a flat\popup button). Additionally set the control's cursor to hand.

Answer 3

As sniper says, you can set a Controltemplate for each state.

Alternatively, you can completely replace a control's visual tree with anything you want - while still keeping the control behavior intact. Check out this post by ScottGu on the topic

Answer 4

You can derive your control from ButtonBase, just like Button, HyperlinkButton, Checkbox, etc.