Silverlight/WPF FlipImage Animation

I was working on some Silverlight samples and needed an image that could flip over as in the example below. All the samples I could find on the net were pretty complex and contained a lot of code to do the animation and I wanted something really simple. To create the illusion of an image that flips over (or any kind of UI element that flips over) you just need 4 things 1. A front image / UI element 2. A back image / UI element 3. A flip animation 4. A reverse animation The flip and reverse animations can be very simple as you will see below. In order to make it reusable in our application we can create a UserControl and call it FlipImage First create 2 UI elements (front and back), in this case Grids but they could really be any kind of items...(read more) ...