Question

I’ve searched all over but it seems like no one has figured out a way (or at least written about a way) to add transitions to a ContentControl (or equivalent) in Silverlight for Windows Phone.

I’m using Caliburn Micro, and I have a Screen Conductor that activates different user controls. All I want is a simple slide effect between activations, forward and back. You can do this in WPF but not in SL4WP it seems like.

The other alternative is to switch to using navigation between these views, but then I lose the “master-detail” style view model. I’d be open to an answer that kept my intention but used page navigation instead (since then I could use the Slide transitions from the Windows Phone Toolkit).

It’s a step-by-step style conductor, I need to lead the user through a 2-3 step process, allowing them to go back or cancel out, each step using data from the previous.

Answer 1

Are you sure it cannot be done? There are various blog posts and articles on the internet that indicate that the TransitioningContentControl is part of the Silverlight for Window Phone Toolkit.

Note that ‘Silverlight’ and ‘Silverlight for Windows Phone’ are different things, so you must download the right toolkit.