PointerPressed not working on left click

Question

Creating Metro (Microsoft UI) app for Windows 8 on WPF+C#, I met difficulty with PointerPressed event on a button. Event doesn\'t happen when i perform left-click (by mouse)

Answer 1

FWIW, I've been facing the same issue and solved it by adding the event handler to some other control (but a button).

In my case I had a Button wrapped around a SymbolIcon like so:

What I did I just removed the Button wrap and replaced it with a ViewBox, then added the handlers to the ViewBox itself, everything works now:

Note that you lose the Button visuals and effects (i.e. hover etc.), but to me that wasn't an issue. I think you can re-apply them from the stock styles.