Working with Animation in Silverlight 1.0

Meyers, Mike

Wrox Briefs

1. Auflage Oktober 2007
28 Seiten, Additional Downloadable Content
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-0-470-25963-4

John Wiley & Sons

This Wrox Blox teaches you how to create animations using
Microsoft's new platform for building rich Internet applications
-- Silverlight. This Wrox Blox introduces animation concepts
and answers questions such as when and why you want to use
animation in your Web development. The core classes that make up
the Silverlight animation subsystem are also introduced, providing
you with a solid foundation to take away and build on. The
author takes you step-by-step through three examples, ranging
from basic to advanced and from theoretical to real world.

The examples cover topics such as how to create a progress
indicator and how to use the Completed event to implement
animation-chaining. After reading this Wrox Blox, you will be able
to define animations using XAML syntax, control them from
JavaScript, and include them in your Silverlight-based Web
development. The examples in this Wrox Blox are built using Visual
Studio 2005 and Silverlight 1.0 RC1. The Microsoft 1.0 Silverlight
SDK is also used, which provides Silverlight project templates for
Visual Studio 2005.

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Animation 101.

A Silverlight Animation Primer.

Enough Theory! Time to Create Some Animations.

Example #1: Visual Cues, Dynamic Effects, and Interactivity.

Example #2: Something a Little More Useful--A Progress
Indicator.

Example #3: The Animation Completed Event.

Mike Meyers is president of Novera Consulting Inc (http://www.noveraconsulting.com), a software development and consulting firm specializing in custom application development using Microsoft platforms and technologies. Based in Orange County, California, Novera is focused on providing a variety of solutions to companies spanning multiple industry verticals. Mike has worked in several industries himself, including mortgage lending, healthcare, and various ecommerce ventures as developer, architect, and project manager. Mike coauthored Professional WPF Programming (http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/productCd-0470041803.html) for Wrox and is currently authoring a book on Silverlight 1.1. Mike also writes about .NET, WPF, and Silverlight on his blog (http://codeappeal.blogspot.com) when time allows. When he's not writing code, Mike is active mountain biking in Southern California and hiking with his four-legged companion, Dakota.