WPF - VisualStateManager - How do I?

Question

Hello, I Have two states within my VisualStateManagerGroup: "VisualStateLogin". How do I go from the Base state to another when my Window is loaded? I Have tryed it:

public MainWindow()
{
this.InitializeComponent();

 //Initializes the mainwindow in a user loogedoff state

 this.Loaded += new RoutedEventHandler(MainWindow_Loaded);
}

void MainWindow_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
 VisualStateManager.GoToState(this, "LoggedOff", true);
}

This is my XAML Code:

    <VisualStateManager.CustomVisualStateManager>
        <ic:ExtendedVisualStateManager/>
    </VisualStateManager.CustomVisualStateManager>
    <VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
        <VisualStateGroup x:Name="VisualStateLogin">
            <VisualStateGroup.Transitions>
                <VisualTransition GeneratedDuration="00:00:00.6000000"/>
            </VisualStateGroup.Transitions>
            <VisualState x:Name="LoggedOn"/>
            <VisualState x:Name="LoggedOff">
                <Storyboard>
                    <DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames BeginTime="00:00:00" Duration="00:00:00.0010000" Storyboard.TargetName="brdContent" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.Opacity)">
                        <SplineDoubleKeyFrame KeyTime="00:00:00" Value="0.1"/>
                    </DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
                    <DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames BeginTime="00:00:00" Duration="00:00:00.0010000" Storyboard.TargetName="brdTab" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.Opacity)">
                        <SplineDoubleKeyFrame KeyTime="00:00:00" Value="0.4"/>
                    </DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
                    <BooleanAnimationUsingKeyFrames BeginTime="00:00:00" Duration="00:00:00.0010000" Storyboard.TargetName="brdContent" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.IsHitTestVisible)">
                        <DiscreteBooleanKeyFrame KeyTime="00:00:00" Value="True"/>
                    </BooleanAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
                    <BooleanAnimationUsingKeyFrames BeginTime="00:00:00" Duration="00:00:00.0010000" Storyboard.TargetName="brdTab" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.IsEnabled)">
                        <DiscreteBooleanKeyFrame KeyTime="00:00:00" Value="False"/>
                    </BooleanAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
                    <BooleanAnimationUsingKeyFrames BeginTime="00:00:00" Duration="00:00:00.0010000" Storyboard.TargetName="brdContent" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.IsEnabled)">
                        <DiscreteBooleanKeyFrame KeyTime="00:00:00" Value="False"/>
                    </BooleanAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
                </Storyboard>
            </VisualState>
        </VisualStateGroup>
    </VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>

Thank You,

Josi

Answer 1

I got to solve it this way:

    public MainWindow()
    {
        this.InitializeComponent();

        //Initializes the mainwindow in a user loogedoff state

        this.Loaded += new RoutedEventHandler(MainWindow_Loaded);
    }

    void MainWindow_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        ExtendedVisualStateManager.GoToElementState(this.LayoutRoot as FrameworkElement, "LoggedOff", false);        
    }

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