Question

I’m using the Silverlight 3 datagrid and have a number of custom styles applied – for example, a row style with TargetType data:DataGridRow. However, being very new to Silverlight I’m struggling to figure out how to achieve the following effect: highlight a row (temporarily, say for 2 seconds) when some property of the data item for that row changes.

I can iterate the row components on item update using code similar to the following:

foreach (Object p in CollectionView.View)
{
    TextBlock block = (TextBlock)Grid.Columns[0].GetCellContent(p);
    if (block != null && block.DataContext == recentlyUpdatedObject)
    {
        // effect rows visual state here
    }
}

So my main requirement is to apply the temporary highlight somehow to the row.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

fturtle

Answer 1

You could hook into some event as in this silverlight row color change post.

and then set off a timer and change the rows color back.

Still that seems a bit clunky.