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Windows Phone 7 Turnstile Control for Silverlight

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11 Oct 2010Ms-PL8 min read 124.9K   2.5K   68  
A tutorial explaining how to develop the "Turnstile" animation as featured in the Windows Phone 7 UI, along with an easy-to-use ItemsControl that applies the effect to its items.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Documents;
using System.Windows.Input;
using System.Windows.Media;
using System.Windows.Media.Animation;
using System.Windows.Shapes;

namespace VirtualDreams.TurnstileTest
{
    public partial class App : Application
    {

        public App()
        {
            this.Startup += this.Application_Startup;
            this.Exit += this.Application_Exit;
            this.UnhandledException += this.Application_UnhandledException;

            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void Application_Startup(object sender, StartupEventArgs e)
        {
            this.RootVisual = new MainPage();
        }

        private void Application_Exit(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

        }

        private void Application_UnhandledException(object sender, ApplicationUnhandledExceptionEventArgs e)
        {
            // If the app is running outside of the debugger then report the exception using
            // the browser's exception mechanism. On IE this will display it a yellow alert 
            // icon in the status bar and Firefox will display a script error.
            if (!System.Diagnostics.Debugger.IsAttached)
            {

                // NOTE: This will allow the application to continue running after an exception has been thrown
                // but not handled. 
                // For production applications this error handling should be replaced with something that will 
                // report the error to the website and stop the application.
                e.Handled = true;
                Deployment.Current.Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(delegate { ReportErrorToDOM(e); });
            }
        }

        private void ReportErrorToDOM(ApplicationUnhandledExceptionEventArgs e)
        {
            try
            {
                string errorMsg = e.ExceptionObject.Message + e.ExceptionObject.StackTrace;
                errorMsg = errorMsg.Replace('"', '\'').Replace("\r\n", @"\n");

                System.Windows.Browser.HtmlPage.Window.Eval("throw new Error(\"Unhandled Error in Silverlight Application " + errorMsg + "\");");
            }
            catch (Exception)
            {
            }
        }
    }
}

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Written By
Virtual Dreams
Brazil Brazil
Hi! I'm Roberto. I'm a Brazilian Engineering student at the University of São Paulo and the Ecole Centrale de Lille (France).

I've participated in the Imagine Cup competition and went to the world finals every year from 2005 to 2009. I also won the 1st place award in 2006, in India, for the Interface Design invitational, in 2007 in Korea, for the Embedded Development invitational, and in 2009 in Egypt for the Windows Mobile Award.

Currently I keep a blog (in English and Portuguese) at http://virtualdreams.com.br/blog/ and a weekly webcast about WPF and Silverlight (in Portuguese) at http://www.xamlcast.net.

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