Use Triggers in Silverlight

You can use triggers to define some simple animation in Silverlight.

For current version of Silverlight, it only support one RouteEvent for the trigger. that is Element.Loaded

You can refer to the following example to define your own trigger.

<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White"> <Canvas> <Rectangle Width="300" Height="150" Stroke="Orange" StrokeThickness="15" x:Name="MyRectangle"> <Rectangle.Triggers> <EventTrigger RoutedEvent="Rectangle.Loaded"> <BeginStoryboard> <Storyboard BeginTime="0:0:3"> <DoubleAnimation From="0" To="300.456" Storyboard.TargetName="MyRectangle" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Canvas.Left)"/> </Storyboard> </BeginStoryboard> </EventTrigger> </Rectangle.Triggers> </Rectangle> <TextBlock FontFamily="Arial" FontSize="56" Canvas.Left="25" Canvas.Top="40" Foreground="Black" Text="Silverlight" x:Name="MyTextBlock"> <TextBlock.Triggers> <EventTrigger RoutedEvent="TextBlock.Loaded"> <BeginStoryboard> <Storyboard BeginTime="0:0:3"> <DoubleAnimation From="25" To="325.456" Storyboard.TargetName="MyTextBlock" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Canvas.Left)"/> </Storyboard> </BeginStoryboard> </EventTrigger> </TextBlock.Triggers> </TextBlock> </Canvas> </Grid>