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)
- Christian Schormann’s Blog (Group Program Manager for Expression Blend)
- Steve White’s video tutorials (Program Manager for Expression Blend)
- Celso Gomes’s tutorials (Designer for Expression Blend)
- Tim Heuer’s Blog (Senior Program Manager on the .NET Developer Platform)
- Scott Guthrie’s Blog (Corporate Vice President of the Developer Division)
- Jesse Liberty's tutorials (Senior Program Manager on the .NET Developer Platform)
-Steve White