WPF Animate border background color - wpf

Question

I'm trying to animate the color of the brush for the background of a custom class that inherits from Border. I've tried the MSDN link here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.media.animation.coloranimation.aspx
This is not exactly what I'm looking for, but can get me to a point with no errors but still, nothing is animating. The problem with the example is that they are defining the logic within a class that isn't the rectangle. I am trying to define from within the rectangle (actually the border).
Below is my code that I tried to extrapolate from MSDN for my situation.
public class PrettyButton : System.Windows.Controls.Border
{
private System.Windows.Media.SolidColorBrush hoverColor = new System.Windows.Media.SolidColorBrush();
private System.Windows.Media.SolidColorBrush origColor = new System.Windows.Media.SolidColorBrush();
private System.Windows.Media.Animation.Storyboard story = new System.Windows.Media.Animation.Storyboard();
public PrettyButton()
{
hoverColor.Color = System.Windows.Media.Color.FromArgb(255, 50, 200, 0);
origColor.Color = System.Windows.Media.Color.FromArgb(0, 0, 0, 0);
this.MouseEnter += PrettyButton_MouseEnter;
this.MouseLeave += PrettyButton_MouseLeave;
//Animate in logic
System.Windows.Media.Animation.ColorAnimation color = new System.Windows.Media.Animation.ColorAnimation(hoverColor.Color, System.TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(400));
System.Windows.Media.Animation.Storyboard.SetTargetProperty(color, new System.Windows.PropertyPath(System.Windows.Media.SolidColorBrush.ColorProperty));
story.Children.Add(color);
}
and below in the mouseEvent I have
void PrettyButton_MouseEnter(object sender, System.Windows.Input.MouseEventArgs e)
{
story.Begin(this);
}
Unfortunately, I'm not getting any more errors so the trail has gone cold for me. I am also certain that I could probably find 10 solutions in XAML, but I would like for this class to be reusable in the future, and redefining this logic is not ideal.

Answer 1

Instead of System.Windows.Media.SolidColorBrush.ColorProperty, try setting "(Border.Background).(SolidColorBrush.Color)"
Property Path.
System.Windows.Media.Animation.Storyboard.SetTargetProperty(color, new System.Windows.PropertyPath("(Border.Background).(SolidColorBrush.Color)"));
Also set Background in constructor of PrettyButton as like this :
public PrettyButton()
{
.....
origColor.Color = System.Windows.Media.Color.FromArgb(0, 0, 0, 0);
this.Background= new SolidColorBrush(origColor.Color);
..
....
}
UPDATE :
public class PrettyButton : System.Windows.Controls.Border
{
private System.Windows.Media.SolidColorBrush hoverColor = new System.Windows.Media.SolidColorBrush();
private System.Windows.Media.SolidColorBrush origColor = new System.Windows.Media.SolidColorBrush();
public PrettyButton()
{
hoverColor.Color = System.Windows.Media.Color.FromArgb(255, 50, 200, 0);
origColor.Color = System.Windows.Media.Color.FromArgb(0, 0, 0, 0);
this.Background= new SolidColorBrush(origColor.Color);
this.MouseEnter += PrettyButton_MouseEnter;
this.MouseLeave += PrettyButton_MouseLeave;
}
private void PrettyButton_MouseLeave(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
System.Windows.Media.Animation.Storyboard story = new System.Windows.Media.Animation.Storyboard();
System.Windows.Media.Animation.ColorAnimation color = new System.Windows.Media.Animation.ColorAnimation(origColor.Color, System.TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(400));
System.Windows.Media.Animation.Storyboard.SetTargetProperty(color, new System.Windows.PropertyPath("(Border.Background).(SolidColorBrush.Color)"));
story.Children.Add(color);
story.Begin(this);
}
private void PrettyButton_MouseEnter(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
System.Windows.Media.Animation.Storyboard story = new System.Windows.Media.Animation.Storyboard();
System.Windows.Media.Animation.ColorAnimation color = new System.Windows.Media.Animation.ColorAnimation(hoverColor.Color, System.TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(400));
System.Windows.Media.Animation.Storyboard.SetTargetProperty(color, new System.Windows.PropertyPath("(Border.Background).(SolidColorBrush.Color)"));
story.Children.Add(color);
story.Begin(this);
}
}