Windows Phone DEV - How to share storyboard animations and use them optimally in page transitions
Often when you create WP7 applications, you want to share storyboards across pages and make them like a common resource. Also you want to optimize the loading of such resources so that you don’t do disk I/O just to get the xml fragments which constitute your resources.
Ben Williams, a buddy of mine has a neat article on doing just this. Here is the link to it, which is written in two parts. Be sure to read both.
https://blogs.msdn.com/b/benwilli/archive/2011/02/04/custom-page-transitions-in-wp7.aspx (Part#1)
https://blogs.msdn.com/b/benwilli/archive/2011/02/08/custom-page-transitions-in-wp7-part-2.aspx (Part#2)