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For the most part we should be using Storyboards to do animations. Though it is possible to do programmatic animation and we do sometimes programmatically set properties the Storyboard infrastructure in Silverlight provides a standard easy to use and optimized way to-do animation and is a key tenet of the Silverlight technology especially around performance.
Storyboards like other elements in Xaml are defined with tags. The Storyboard element then can be a resource or in a trigger. We can also point a Storyboard at a specific element where each animation can target a different property and...
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http://hackingsilverlight.blogspot.com/2008/01/anatomy-of-silverlight-animation.html
About david.kelley
David for the past 10 years has focused on distributed application design and emerging Microsoft technologies on the web. Having helped design and build some of the largest systems for companies like Microsoft, Onyx Software, Saltmine, Giordanous Group and more and of course our favorite company Identitymine, he has been on the leading edge of applying the latest tech to real world business problems. David’s technology breadth includes everything from SQL Server to Windows/WCF and Silverlight. David’s accomplishments also include developing new technologies such as self editing XML files and related XML technologies to fuzzy logic systems and advanced web user interface design.