Windows phone 7 page transitions

Next you need to make some minor tweaks to every page you want to animate. Add the following namespace to the XAML file:. To do this the first line of your XAML file should be:. The final change is to add the following line into the constructor:. You can set any element to be the AnimationContext, this is useful if you want to only animate a sub-area of the page between pages.

Compile and run your app — you should find your pages automatically use the turnstile transition. They have a few caveats, but the performance improvements and memory savings are substantial. I hope that this article has given you a taster of the transitions and how easy they are to implement.

Hungry for more? Click here to view part 2 where we cover additional transitions. Thanks so much for this, as a complete newb I started learning C last week would you be able to explain how to compile the file. I took the reference file from your sample file in the end. Also for other beginners such as myself perhaps you should mention the fact you have to reference the namespace in the codebehind page as well. You sure are jumping into C at the deep end!

Can you tell me what issues you had compiling the file? Thank you so much Dan! I put these transitions into my current app: GeoFlick. Visual Studio adds a default page called MainPage to the project. I added a button and customized the page to give it the following appearance. Following is the code-behind code for the button on the MainPage to navigate to the FirstPage :.

Following is the code-behind code for the button on the FirstPage to navigate to the SecondPage :. I am providing In and Out transition for the FirstPage. In the InitializePhoneApplication method in the App. Following is the code of the InitializePhoneApplication method in the App.

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All Products. Bring Motion to your Windows Phone 7 Application using the Telerik animation engine and page transition framework. We created the following list of base animations that are available out of the box from our suite: Fade , Scale , Move , Slide , Perspective , Turnstile , Tile , Rotate, Resize, Swivel, and Continuum One of my favorite transitions is the Tile transition. We support all the available transitions you may need : ForwardOut - this is the transition that will be executed on the current page when navigating away from it, ForwardIn - this is the transition that will be executed on the new page when navigating to it, BackwardOut - this is the transition that will be executed on the current page when user has pressed the Back button, BackwardIn - this is the transition that will be executed on the new page when user has navigated to it using the Back button We provided the needed high level APIs so using the page transition is just a matter of replacing the PhoneApplicationFrame with RadPhoneApplicationFrame.

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