It is possible to reuse a storyboard. Make sure to stop the storyboard before you set a new target property. Thanks Tom for pointing this out.
XAML
<Canvas x:Name=”LayoutRoot” Background=”White”>
<Button Height=”20″ Width=”120″ Canvas.Left=”0″ Canvas.Top=”0″ Content=”Button” x:Name=”btnTest”/>
<Rectangle x:Name=”Fred” Height=”30″ Width=”30″ Fill=”Aquamarine” Canvas.Top=”50″/>
<Rectangle x:Name=”Wilma” Height=”30″ [...]
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Reusing a Storyboard
How to dynamically create animations from C# in Silverlight
So you want to create an animation from managed code. To do this, there is quite a bit of code needed. For every animation there needs to be a new StoryBoard, and unfortunately a StoryBoard can not be reused between objects. (Correction: You can reuse a dynamically created StoryBoard. Make sure to [...]
Animating multiple transforms in C# - Silverlight
Yesterday I talked about how to write C# code to animate multiple transforms of an object. It appears, to my dismay, that at the current time you are unable to animate objects completely in C#. There is a work around by creating a XAML storyboard and importing into a string using the XAMLReader object. Here [...]
