implicit-style

I'm having a great deal of difficulty trying to achieve something that should be trivial. I'm using an Implicit Button Style defined in a global XAML resource file. I just want to change the background color of the focused button to red with a ColorAnimation. I've tried a number of different combinations in Storyboard.TargetProperty and Storyboard.TargetName and nothing has worked. How can I achieve this? Thanks in advance. <Style TargetType="Button" > <Setter Property="Template"> <Setter.Value> <ControlTemplate TargetType="Button"> <Grid x:Name="grid" RenderTransformOrigin="0.5,0.5"> <Grid

I was looking at this question , and discovered that binding Label.Content to a non-string value will apply an implicit TextBlock style, however binding to a string does not. Here's some sample code to reproduce the problem: <Window.Resources> <Style TargetType="Label"> <Setter Property="FontSize" Value="26"/> <Setter Property="Margin" Value="10"/> <Setter Property="VerticalAlignment" Value="Center"/> </Style> <Style TargetType="{x:Type TextBlock}"> <Setter Property="FontSize" Value="26"/> <Setter Property="Margin" Value="10"/> </Style> </Window.Resources> <Grid> <StackPanel Orientation=