Up until now I have not had an opportunity to create any Silverlight procedural animations that were more complicated then positioning an object with some simple easing. I thought it would be fun to attempt to duplicate one of the transitions used on the iPhone. While making a phone call, if you choose to [...]

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Whenever possible developers should encourage designers to maintain all of their Silverlight storyboards within XAML. This allows the designers the optimum environment to use a tool like Blend to tweak the animation timing, easing and any relevant Key Splines. That said, there are situations where a developer may create a UserControl that requires [...]

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An integral part of our proof-of-concept for the Phizzpop design challenge was a grid of tiles that represented a variety of TV shows and Movies. Transitioning from screen to screen we needed to repopulate this grid with a new set of tiles based on search criteria and filters. To improve the effect of [...]

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