When transitioning from one state (e.g., button up) to another (e.g., button pressed)
the user expects and requires visual feedback. Often this is provided with animation: the button appears to descend. Creating this animation is greatly simplified by the Visual State Manager in Silverlight, and thus in Windows Phone 7.
To see this in a simple demonstration, let’s return to the form created in the previous tutorial, Styles, and examine the OK button.
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Let’s take a look at how styles can unify the look and feel of a Windows Phone application. This and the next few Windows Phone From Scratch (WPFS) postings will use the same form, so we’ll begin by creating a new Windows Phone Application in Expression Blend, and we’ll name it WPFS8.
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Try this in your Xaml…
<Button VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Margin="5" Height="30" />
Part 4 in the Full Stack series in which Jon and I are building an entire application from conception to delivery that includes MVC 3 ASP.NET, Silverlight and Windows Phone.
This mini-tutorial extends the work done in number 6, adding a slider and a text block
bound to the value of the slider, through element binding – that is, the binding of one element’s value (in this case the TextBlock) to a value in a second element (in this case the slider).
Talking with Shawn Wildermuth about Silverlight, Windows Phone, Data and more. 
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Talking with Corey Schuman about Windows Phone, Blend and more.
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Part 3 in the Full Stack series in which Jon and I are building an entire application from conception to delivery that includes MVC 3 ASP.NET, Silverlight and Windows Phone.
Whoa! Insurrection on this series! Fair enough, it is based on the quite legitimate
complaint that the mini-tutorials were too mini and not enough tutorial. To make up for this deficiency, this mini-tutorial will cover steps 2 and 3 described in the previous mini-tutorial: creating the form and basic data binding.
