Chapter 10. Animation

When it comes to making user interfaces that make people go "wow," you have many of the pieces of the puzzle: media (video/audio/images), brushes to easily create interesting surfaces, and a set of controls that can be completely re-skinned. There's one final big piece of the user interface support in Silverlight: animation. Silverlight makes it easy to make elements of user interfaces move, and when you put together the various components into a full application, you end up with something quite interesting. Any dependency property can potentially be influenced by animation. If you give some thought to the various properties discussed throughout this book, such as transforms and brushes, it's possible to start coming up with ...

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