This is the second post in a four part series about managing parts & states in Silverlight 2 controls. Today, we’ll put into practice the concepts you learned last time and walk through how to reskin a CheckBox.  (If you haven’t already, please be sure to read part 1 of this series.) Note: I’ve shortened the XAML snippets in this post for readability.  You can download the full sample code here. (Series Link:  Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) A CheckBox ControlTemplate ControlTemplates define the visuals for a custom control.  The CheckBox ControlTemplate that we’ll be expanding on …

In Silverlight 2, we’ve added significant new support for managing states and transitions inside of controls.  To help explain the Parts & States Model, I’ve put together a 4 part post series that will show how to: Create a control contract using the Parts & States Model Wire the control logic to manipulate states & parts Design a control template with states & parts Playing a starring role in this content will be VisualStateManager, or as we lovingly call it, VSM.  VSM can be used with both UserControls and custom controls… but in this series, we’ll concentrate on its usage …