I am trying to create a control which is basically showing a list of pictures in Silverlight, but I want the list to rotate in a sort of 2.5D way. You can think of it as the picture in the middle is YOU, and the others are your friends on social networking site.
Here is a sketch of what I mean:
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As you click the green arrows, the pictures animate/rotate to go to the next one.
Each picture will actually be inside a nice looking 3D-ish frame like the one in the Win 7 logon screen:
(source: softpedia.com)
Can anyone help me understand how to write this for Silverlight? I don’t need anything exact, I just don’t know where to begin doing such a complicated animation. Also, I want to be able to imitate the border of the Win 7 logon icon if possible.
what you want is a type of “CoverFlow”, typically called “Carousel”. Check here for an article to get you started. Basically, you want to Transform your images. This shouldn’t be too difficult.