Sliding effect in Docking control

[kalyan]

Hi Admin,
Can we add sliding effect in Docking control while adding an RadPane or closing an Radpane.
I am putting a link with this mail.
http://www.cellbi.com/blog/2011/01/svfx-4-1-advanced-animations-for-silverlight-navigation-frame.aspx
Please help me to solve this problem and let me know if this can be worked out or not.

Thanks
Kalyan

[Miroslav Nedyalkov]

Hello Kalyan,

 You could add animation for the whole PaneGroup for each time the selected pane is changed - it will appear also when adding a pane (the new pane is selected when this happens) or when closing a pane (the currently selected pane is removed, so it is deselected). Unfortunately you cannot easily add animation only for opening/closing of a pane.

To achieve this you need to edit the ControlTemplate of the RadPaneGroup and to replace the ContentPresenter that presents the SelectedContent with a RadTransitionControl - it supports slick animations. For more information about how to use the TransitionControl into the ControlTemplate of a TabControl (the RadPaneGroup is actually a TabControl) you could refer to the following article - http://blogs.telerik.com/blogs/posts/10-05-12/using_transitions_with_radtransitioncontrol_and_transitionpresenter_in_radtabcontrol.aspx.

Hope this helps!

Greetings,
Miroslav Nedyalkov
the Telerik team