How do you do transition effects using the Frame control in WPF?

Question

I thought this would be easy but I guess not.

I have 2 pages that load in my frame control. I want to be able to either have a nice slide effect from one page to the

Answer 1

This probably isn't the best answer, but it maybe helpful to you or at least give you some ideas. In Silverlight I have achieved that type of sliding transition effect between pages by using the TransitioningContentControl from the Silverlight Toolkit. It is a content control which basically lets you define a custom storyboard in a visual state for a transition between the old and new content whenever the content changes. It also includes some default (fade/up/down) transitions if you don't want to take the time to define a custom storyboard.

I realize that you are working with WPF and that the TransitioningContentControl is not available in WPF or in the WPF Toolkit. However, it may not be too difficult to port this control over to WPF or at least make one that does something similar. Glancing over the source it looks like it may be doable if you have the time and it is the type of control you may reuse in other places.

The source code is here for the Silverlight version and Jesse Liberty has a nice tutorial which walks through using the control in Silverlight.