Creating an Animated ContentControl - CodeProject

Introduction to article

WPF has very powerful animation capabilities but in some cases, these are quite hard to use in combination with data driven content. One example is when a ContentControl is dynamically rendering a view based on a bound object in its ViewModel.
This article shows a solution where a standard ContentControl is enhanced to animate the transitions between content while still maintaining it's familiar functionality and behavior.

Creating an Animated ContentControl - CodeProject