June 2008 - Posts
In the last part I’ve shown how the VideoBrush can be used and videos can be animated by dividing MediaElement into two parts. In this demonstration of Silverlight animation I’ll focus on transitional animation. We’ve seen this type of animation many times in movies, television commercials, music videos, in sting which we see at the beginning of any news. The wipe effect and dissolves are mostly used in film and television.
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Expression Blend 2.5 June Preview is now available which can be downloaded here. Now it's possible to edit the ControlTemplates from Blend using Visual State Manager to change the look and feel of the controls. The Visual State Manger gives designers an easy and powerful way to design the interaction model of their Silverlight 2 applications. Tim Heuer has an excellent blog post on this. You can check his blog post here. Designers now have the ability to easily edit what the control looks like in each particular state, as well as setup transition rules to control how long it should take to animate when moving from one state to another. At runtime Silverlight will then dynamically run the appropriate animation Storyboards to smoothly move the control from one state to another. For details check about the features you can check here .
