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I've seen some print ads recently that feature a phone with a simulation of 1960's style flip-number clock. Such a clock is fairly trivial in Silverlight.

I am currently working on four video/tutorial series:

• Getting Started with Silverlight
• Windows Phone 7 Programming
• Blend for Developers
• The HyperVideo Platform project. 

In this chapter, you will be learning the basic fundamental concepts of Animations in Silverlight Application, which includes Animation Types, namespace details, classes, objects used, implementation of different types of animations with XAML and with C# code and some more interesting samples for each animation. You will see how to use important properties of Timeline class with examples, controlling animation with storyboard methods. We will also see Animation in XAML versus Animation in Code with an example.

This day I read a question at the Expression Blend and Scetchflow Forum about how to make a ChildWindow rotate. Interesting enough to build a quick and simple solution for that, including a rotation when the ChildWindow opens. So here it is. You can view an example and download the sourcecode of a sample application at the Expression Gallery. The Sourcecode is Silverlight 3, but the implementation for Silverlight 4 is similar.

The following step by step tutorial builds a Silverlight 4 app.

This is part 8 of the series “Silverlight in Action”:

1. Visuals staring at the mouse cursor.
2. Floating Visual Elements.
3. Flipping Panels.
4. Flying objects against you.
5. Smoke effect
6. Book Folding effect using Pixel Shader.
7. Navigation in 3D world of 2D objects
8. Animated navigation between Pages.

Here, we’re sharing our experience from the amazing CompletIT web site.

Introduction

In this session, we will cover one quite popular, but still very useful, technique for adding interaction to your web-site - "How to enable animations between pages using the Silverlight Navigation Framework".

This is the fourth in a fast paced series on programming Windows Phone 7. In this mini-tutorial I will demonstrate how absurdly easy it is to create a master page with a list of data, and a details page to display more information about the selected item, and to animate the transition from one to the other. To make it more interesting, we’ll get the list and the details from a web service, using oData.

This is part 7 of the series “Silverlight in Action”:

1. Visuals staring at the mouse cursor.
2. Floating Visual Elements.
3. Flipping Panels.
4. Flying objects against you.
5. Smoke effect
6. Book Folding effect using Pixel Shader.
7. Navigation in 3D world of 2D objects 
8. Animated navigation between Pages

Here we’re sharing our experience from the amazing CompletIT web site.

Introduction

It’s always complicated, when you have to deal with 3D objects. No matter what environment and framework you choose, you’ll need to learn a lot of complicated structures and procedures in order to implement even a simple scenario.

This is part 6 of the series “Silverlight in Action”:

1. Visuals staring at the mouse cursor.
2. Floating Visual Elements.
3. Flipping Panels.
4. Flying objects against you.
5. Smoke effect
6. Book Folding effect using Pixel Shader.
7. Navigation in 3D world of 2D objects
8. Animated navigation between Pages

Here we’re sharing our experience from the amazing CompletIT web site.

Introduction

In this article, we’ll examine one very interesting approach for creating Rich UI. It’s a program that manipulates the UI just before the actual rendering on the screen – and it’s called PixelShader.