How to set the Background color animation in Silver light and WinRT in code behind?

Question

In WPF we can animate the back ground color for the particular control by using below code: AssociatedObject.Background.BeginAnimation(SolidColorBrush.ColorProperty, ColorAnimation); But I don't know how to animate the same in Silverlight and WinRT platforms.

Answer 1

The WPF code is (I think?) a shorthand for creating a storyboard, adding an animation and assigning its target, and running the storyboard. You can do the same in Silverlight like this:

var animation = new ColorAnimation 
{
    To = Colors.Black,
    Duration = new Duration(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(500))
};

Storyboard.SetTarget(animation, AssociatedObject.Background);
Storyboard.SetTargetProperty(animation, new PropertyPath(SolidColorBrush.ColorProperty));

var sb = new Storyboard();
sb.Children.Add(animation);
sb.Begin();