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Silverlight: How to use CompositionTarget.Rendering event to synchronize discrete and non-discrete animations

I’ve brought up this topic in the recent post , but I was pointed out it can be lost among other content and is not stressed enough. Everything brings down to the fact that some actions, particularly animations cannot be easily enclosed in storyboards.

Animate anything anywhere with behaviors in Silverlight 3 (and 2!) (Animations part II)

Introduction In the previous article on my Blog we have implemented a Panel with 3D (or rather projections) animations. It was cool but we had also two, innate shortcomings there. The first was that the architecture required to implement a new panel and

How to create generic animated panels in Silverlight 2 and 3 (Animations part I)

Introduction I’ve always had mixed feelings toward animations in cases of generic controls, panels or item controls. From one side it is extremely easy to define standard animations associated with visual states. From the other implementing any more sophisticated