Buttons

Silverlight recognizes three types of button controls: the familiar Button, the CheckBox, and the RadioButton. All of these controls are content controls that derive from ButtonBase.

The ButtonBase class includes only a few members. It defines the obviously important Click event and adds the IsFocused, IsMouseOver, and IsPressed read-only properties. Finally, the ButtonBase class adds a ClickMode property, which determines when a button fires its Click event in response to mouse actions. The default value is ClickMode.Release, which means the Click event fires when the mouse is clicked and released. However, you can also choose to fire the Click event mouse when the mouse button is first pressed (ClickMode.Press) or, oddly enough, whenever ...

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