Advanced MVVM: Doing visual states properly

An important plus of rich internet applications is the potential user experience you can achieve by applying UX patterns. A part of this is the visual states and their transitions. A visual state determines what the user interface looks like at a certain point in time and the transitions describe how the application moves from one visual state to the other, many times using animations to enhance the experience. The most obvious way when you’re unfamiliar with XAML is to change the visual state of an application by writing code to show or hide controls when events occur, like e.