I'm going to deviate from my typical ''line of business'' blog posts to discuss a topic that comes up quite a bit with Silverlight: animations. I've had a few projects where it's been necessary to use animations to transition between ''screens'' in the application. While I use the visual state manager as often as I can for this, sometimes the ...

We often trip over ourselves trying to minimize code behind and abstract behaviors in the UI from the models, etc. This is important for clean separation, but sometimes behaviors may add too much abstraction. The real fact is many applications require some sort of transition or animation based on events, and while we can try to put as many of ...