The Joy Of Programming

For the last couple of days I was trying to make an animated e-card using Silverlight. So here is the final result. The speciality of this card is that when we move the mouse over the card we can see it as if it is a 3D object and get the perspective view of the objects(Papervision 3D?). All the Trees and Mountains are Path objects and the particles falling down are random sized ellipses. I have used Microsoft Expression Blend to do most of this work Click here to see the Card in action. The important part of this Silverlight appplication is a Custom Panel called  SpacialArrangePanel . This panel will arrange its children based on two Attached Dependancy Properties. 1) HangingPoint - A point determines its X and Y position in the space 2) ZDistance - A double value determines how far the object is in the Z-plane. There is another DependancyProperty in the Panel called CameraPoint, which has been hooked to the Mouse Move points so that the mouse pointer acts as an Eye/Camera view point ...

An expression blend tip to create a Path looks like a concave cornered rectangle.  Put a Grid with 5*5 rows and columns. and add 4 ellipse and a rectangle as in the following XAML. < Grid x : Name ="grid" > < Grid.ColumnDefinitions > < ColumnDefinition Width ="0.1*"/> < ColumnDefinition Width ="0.1*"/> < ColumnDefinition Width ="0.6*"/> < ColumnDefinition Width ="0.1*"/> < ColumnDefinition Width ="0.1*"/> </ Grid.ColumnDefinitions > < Grid.RowDefinitions > < RowDefinition Height ="0.1*"/> < RowDefinition Height ="0.1*"/> < RowDefinition Height ="0.6*"/> < RowDefinition Height ="0.1*"/> < RowDefinition Height ="0.1*"/> </ Grid.RowDefinitions > < Rectangle Fill ="#FF000000" Grid.Column ="1...