Silverlight Animation Part 2: Size

Now we'll extend our animation system to be able to animate an elements size. You can see the end result of this post at Silverlight Animation Examples

Merry Christmas

See you all in the new year.

Creating a Dependency Property of type System.Type in Silverlight

Last week I was looking at building a declarative data source control similar to the ObjectDataSource in ASP.NET and ran into a roadblock pretty quickly. Obviously for a control of this nature I want a few properties of type System.Type.

Why won't Generic.xaml work?

The first time I did some control development for Silverlight I ran into a major stumbling block, whatever I put into Generic.xaml just wasn't showing up and none of the tutorials I could find were showing anything different from what I was doing. After some digging through Silverlight with Reflector and a few forum searches show up the culprit … "DefaultStyleKey".

Beginning a Silverlight Animation framework

Silverlight has an excellent animation system, built on top of storyboards and various sorts of animation classes.