Triggers collection members must be of type EventTrigger

Question

I\'ve created a UserControl, similar to the following:

Answer 1

This may be hopelessly outdated, but the following works for me. It might help people running into the problem with: "Triggers collection members must be of type EventTrigger"

Encapsulating "what you want to control" inside a Control object allows you to use the Control.Template to use any trigger you want. This way you can use (data)triggers directly in your XAML where you want to without defining a static style or a completely new UserControl.