Flash to Silverlight
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You do Flash and now you want to add Silverlight to your skillset?
You've come to the right place.
Add the Ball Control and Watch it Fly
This is page 3 of Procedural Animation tutorial in the Getting Started series. As an introduction to Silverlight, this tutorial walks through animating objects with CompositionTarget.Rendering.
Add the Code to the MouseMove Handler
In “MainPage.xaml” select LayoutRoot and in the Properties panel add an event handler for the MouseMove event. Make sure to select the Event button with the lightning bolt icon if you can’t find the MouseMove event.
Place the following code in the new LayoutRoot_MouseMove event handler:
Canvas.SetLeft(b, e.GetPosition(this).X);
Canvas.SetTop(b, e.GetPosition(this).Y);
LayoutRoot.Children.Add(b);
Before running the project to see your work, switch back to “MainPage.xaml” and ensure you’ve changed the LayoutRoot Grid to a Canvas.
Hit F5 to Run the application and you should be greeted with the following:
Pages 1, 2, 3
This is just the beginning of what you can do! With the CompositionTarget.Rendering technique in hand you accomplish many of same type of effects as you would with ENTER_FRAME based animations.
At this point we've only animated positions, the next tutorial covers Color, Scale and Rotation.