Question

The object is an ListBoxItem, although I tried with a Panel as well.

I get this error message: Property can not be null on Trigger., within an InvalidOperationException.

Here’s the trigger:

<Trigger Property="IsInitialized" Value="true">
    <Setter TargetName="MyPanel" Property="Background" Value="AliceBlue">
    </Setter>
</Trigger>

Note: I can’t use Loaded, because I don’t want it to fire whenever the control is rendered. Just at initializiation.

This property exists… why doesn’t it work?

Answer 1

This is because the IsInitialized property is not a Dependency Property. Triggers can only be used with dependency properties.

But the question is why would you need such a trigger? Because the same effect can be achieved just by specifying the Background property directly on MyPanel or in the style of `ListBoxItem’.