Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Working with Animation Events

Storyboard objects expose events that can help you get control over the animations. The first step is assigning a name to the desired storyboard, as in the following example:

<Storyboard Name="ImageStoryBoard">

After you assign a name to the Storyboard, you can handle events summarized in Table 33.1.

Table 33.1 Storyboard Events

Generally you handle the Completed event to make an action when an animation completes, as in the following code snippet:

Notice how animations do not throw routed events, whereas they raise ...