More articles on Visual State Manager

Karen Corby is the Program Manager who worked with the Expression Blend team in developing the Visual State Manager feature. Karen has written four excellent and comprehensive blog posts (starting here) which explain the motivation for VSM, everything you can do with VSM and how it works under the covers, and how to build and skin a custom control. Even if you won't be writing your own custom control, this is highly recommended material on the subject from someone who designs the platform itself.

Below I've shamelessly copied out Karen's further reading section so we have a good set of links in one place:

• Karen Corby's VSM Posts (Program Manager for Silverlight)
  • Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
• Christian Schormann’s Blog (Group Program Manager for Expression Blend)
  • Creating Control Skins with Visual State Manager - An Introduction
  • Visual State Manager: Goals
  • Visual State Manager for User Controls: A Simple Chord Finder Example
• Steve White’s video tutorials (Program Manager for Expression Blend)
  • Expression tutorials
• Celso Gomes’s tutorials (Designer for Expression Blend)
  • https://www.nibblestutorials.net/
• Tim Heuer’s Blog (Senior Program Manager on the .NET Developer Platform)
  • Skinning Silverlight controls just got easier
  • Silverlight and the VisualStateManager
• Scott Guthrie’s Blog (Corporate Vice President of the Developer Division)
  • Silverlight 2 Beta2 Released
• Jesse Liberty's tutorials (Senior Program Manager on the .NET Developer Platform)
  • Styles, Templates and VisualStateManager

 -Steve White

Comments

• Anonymous
  July 11, 2008
  Karen Corby is the Program Manager who worked with the Expression Blend team in developing the Visual

• Anonymous
  July 11, 2008
  Karen Corby is the Program Manager who worked with the Expression Blend team in developing the Visual

• Anonymous
  July 14, 2008
  Fons Sonnemans with RollMenu, Frank LaVigne with Community Megaphone SL Map, Martin Mihaylov on LINQ

• Anonymous
  July 15, 2008
  В SL 2 Beta 2 добавлен значимый функционал по управлению состоянием и переходами внутри контролов - это

• Anonymous
  July 27, 2008
  This post will try to showcase an updated list of useful (and free!) training material available for

• Anonymous
  August 22, 2008
  In this tutorial I will show you how to edit the ControlTemplate of one of our controls - the slider

• Anonymous
  October 14, 2008
  As you might have heard , we just released Silverlight 2 , and with it the first version of the Silverlight

• Anonymous
  October 30, 2008
  The Blend 2 Service Pack 1 contains a secret ingredient that can be activated by installing the WPF Toolkit

• Anonymous
  November 02, 2008
  Wow if you do WPF work in Blend you need to check this out as soon as possible.. Quoting The Expression Design and Blend team blog: "Thursday, October 30, 2008 2:23 PM xprblog Blend 2 SP1 + WPF Toolkit = Visual State Manager for WPF The Blend 2 Service

• Anonymous
  November 04, 2008
  Now that the Visual State Manager (VSM) is part of the WPFToolKit, I thought I’d show a basic example

• Anonymous
  June 15, 2009
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