"I think the best way to come to grips with a new technology is to have a little fun with it. So when the Silverlight 1.1 alpha was released and I saw the exciting presentation by Tim Sneath at the IMT conference in Dublin, I decided to throw together a little educational application demonstrat...

See how to convert an excel graph with Paste2Xaml to a Silverlight application. To show the power of Silverlight we add a starup animation and a dynamicaly showing graph data on moving the mouse over graph's bars. The tutorial can be also used for WPF applications.

Under the hood with ASP.NET AJAX Animations - How ASP.NET AJAX Animations work

Under the hood with ASP.NET AJAX Animations - Part 3

Under the hood with ASP.NET AJAX Animations - Part 2

WPF is a new framework that has many advanced capabilities. Animations are one of those capabilities, where an object can be animated via rotating, stretching, scaling, moving it across the screen, changing its color, etc. This article will show some of the basic animations.

Simple example which uses a DispatcherTimer to call a function at 30 frames per second. The function uses value-based animation to move an orb randomly around the screen. With this implementation, the animation should never run faster than 30 fps but it will run slower if system resources decrease.

We will talk about how to use the MS-Ajax Animation Framework without any server-side code. The sample completely illustrates how to instantiate and use the Animation Controls by including the proper script references.

Basic Animations Using Microsoft Ajax

Assigning Animations to Client-Side Controls Using Microsoft Ajax Control ToolKit