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Why you should develop systems in WPF, not WinForms

Part nine of a eleven-part series of blogs

We think - cautiously - that WPF is a better platform for client tool development than Windows Forms. This blog gives 10 reasons why.

Posted by Andy Brown on 25 September 2012

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8 - Triggers

There are two main types of trigger in WPF: property triggers and event triggers.

Property Triggers

In Windows Forms, if you want a text box to be shaded when you mouse over it, you have to code this.

When you move the mouse over this textbox, it should go pink.

In WPF you can just write a property trigger in XAML:

The trigger which makes this work: when the IsMouseOver property of the textbox becomes true, change the background colour to Pink.

Event Triggers

Event triggers have two main extra features: they allow controls to interact with each other, and they produce animated effects. So you could (for example) get a form to gradually change background from white to grey when you hover over an OK button - but to do that we'll need to have a look at storyboards and animation, the next part of this blog series.

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