How can I Have a WPF EventTrigger on a View trigger when the underlying Viewmodel dictates it should?

Question

Here\'s the scenario:

I have the following user control, the idea is that it\'s view model should be able to signal to the view that it needs to \"Activate the Glow\

Answer 1

I believe you would have to bind to a RoutedEvent instance, not a CLR event.

I haven't tried it, but something like this should work:

public class UnitView
{
    public static readonly RoutedEvent ActivateGlowEvent
        = EventManager.RegisterRoutedEvent(
              "ActivateGlow", RoutingStrategy.Bubble,
              typeof(RoutedEventHandler), typeof(UnitView)
          );

    public void RaiseActivateGlowEvent()
    {
        RaiseEvent(new RoutedEventArgs(ActivateGlowEvent));
    }
}