Placing elements on the page is really simple but many times the six types of shapes available in Silverlight do not suffice to satisfy all the needs. Also often, especially in junction with animations, the need of moving elements on the screen means transforming basic shapes, applying the rules of the simmetry that in Silverlight go under the name of transform.
Applying a trasform means setting the value of the RenderTransform property that is exposed by every class that implements UIElement. Differently from WPF in Silverlight it is possible to apply transform only during the render phase but unfortunately, the LayoutTransform is missing. This is an important limitation of Silverlight because applying the transform during the Rendering pass implies that, the transformed elements, have already been positioned during the layout pass, so this can lead to unwanted overlapping of shapes. However if you need the Layout Tra ...
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