WPF Attach VisualState to Object Property

Question

I am working on expression Blend for VS2015, I have aListBox binded to an ObservableCollection of custom objects. Those objects expose Properties that arise the NotifyPropertyChanged, and everything works nice.

I can bind parts if the ItemTemplate to those Properties and my list work nice but what I want to do is to set the VisualState according to a certain bool (already configured or not). I also created some events (configured, confLost) and tried to target those events in the triggers panel but .. nothing worked.

How do I bind VisualStates to members of the bound object ??

Answer 1

Although Kylo's solution would provably work, the people at Microsoft already worked a code-free, 3-clicks-away solution for such a simple action to do.

Solution is on Behaviors, there is one behavior called GoToStateAction you have to add one of them to your control and there you can set your trigger (that can be set as DataTrigger). In my case I binded to a property of the type enum. Then you can set the Comparison and the value (equals to "ReadyToUse")

Then as an outcome of the comparison you can trigger a state change for a particular object, you set your object, and you select the state from a nice combobox. There is even a checbox for using your transitions.