Using Silverlight Animations to Improve User Experience in LOB Applications

Joel Neubeck (joel@neubeck.net)

Visual State Manager and Visual States are the key points to understand.  Microsoft toolkit (Transitioning Content Content).   Example he is showing is creating a control template in his Styles.xaml.

Using easing for your movements.  Edit the existing design template.  In Sl4, there are some provided behaviors such as the fluidmovement behavior.  Use the powereasing function.  Use the state manager to change the beforeloaded state. 

Create our own states, or skin another control’s states (such as a checkbox’s checked or unchecked state) to triger our custom defined states.

Textboxes highlight on focus.Go to the expression gallery to find some examples.  This example shows using a custom tooltip to highlight the borders. 

Question I have is how much should I be concerned about upward compatibility of my customizations?