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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.

Animation Easing allows for you to apply built in animation functions to your Silverlight controls. The result is a variety of animation effects that make your controls move in a more realistic way. For example, you can add springiness to your controls, set how many times you want it to bounce when it hits a destination point, etc.

I’ve been explaining the concept of Fluid UI, as a means to animate discrete properties.  The first example that comes to mind is the Visibility property of an element.  Its either Visible or Collapsed, there is no way to interpolate between the two values. When you change the Visibility property between different VisualStates and check the “Use Fluid UI” button, rather than instantly disappearing, Fluid UI will animate the opacity and scale transform to provide a visual transition between the discrete values.

It moves the text up and rotates it at the same time resulting in a spiraling effect. It is done by giving the TextBlock elements a PlaneProjection each and animating the RotationY and GlobalOffsetY properties.

The TextBlock elements are positioned below the bottom of the Canvas. The Canvas has a Clipping Mask so no one will see them until the animation starts.

This is part 5 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.

Maybe the hardest feature to implement from the entire site was the Smoking menu effect. We’ve tried out a lot of ideas and I’m going to summarize some of them:

1. We thought to use a video as a background, but its performance was bad. Blending the video with the background washard to do.

In the context of animation, one of the biggest features in Flash that is missing from Silverlight 3 is an Opacity Mask layer. I haven't seen any mention of this in to Silverlight 4, but I could be mistaken. The only feature that we have in Silverlight 3 is the OpacityMask on each element, which is either a Brush or an image - (Image Brushes don't tile either, but that's a post for another day).