This evening I presented a talk that dove into the details of Silverlight's Visual State Manager. I enjoyed the talk and had a terrific crowd with some very good questions. The deck explains much of what I went into with the talk, including exactly how the VSM works from when and how it starts and stops storyboards to the timing and flow of a ...

Use the visual state aggregator to fire events in Silverlight without resorting to code behind or artifacts on your view models such as delegates to trigger animations. The events are broadcast to subscribing controls that transition visual states based on the event.