Comments on: Workaround for VisualStateManager.GoToState not working on Window

By: Sloven

Sloven — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:28:56 +0000

Silly me. I should use sender as FrameworkElement. All Fine!

By: Sloven

Sloven — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:08:16 +0000

It doesn’t work for me. Nothing happens inside the control.
VisualStateManager.GoToElementState returns false

By: Kasimier

Kasimier — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:35:18 +0000

Actually the following works for me currently:

VisualStateManager.GoToElementState(this.LayoutRoot as FrameworkElement, “MyState”, true);

Note the GoToElementState(..) instead of GoToState(..)

Thanks again!

By: Edu001

Edu001 — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:39:23 +0000

I was going crazy on this.. thanks a lot.

By: Denis

Denis — Wed, 26 May 2010 14:59:53 +0000

Thanks!!!

By: Rudi

Rudi — Sun, 16 May 2010 17:59:49 +0000

Thank you for your great help!

This ‘Workaround’ is still needed in the VS 2010 RC!
What is MS doing??

Great Post

By: Arona

Arona — Fri, 07 May 2010 19:59:06 +0000

Thanks ! you know……..; youSolved an issue that I’d been struggling with for hours……..

Great POst

By: Carl Scarlett

Carl Scarlett — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:40:11 +0000

This also resolves an issue with an exception “Target does not define any VisualStateGroups” that I’ve had copying XAML from Blend 3 to an extended window control.

Rather than using (which causes the exception at ) I’ve added an event handler and used the ExtendedVisualStateManager.GoToElementState workaround.

Thanks for this!

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:57:10 +0000

Good job finding this. It was a most irksome bug! Made me write code I wasn’t proud of… that other developers had to see.

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[...] The last method is the ProcessArguments method. There is a slight kink in the VisualStateManager that won’t allow you to “go to state” as you normally would unless the target is a UserControl. In this case, we had to use a work around which i found here [...]