How would I animate a BlurEffect to any control? - silverlight-4.0

Question

I would like a reusable function that simply does a BlurEffect on any particular valid Control type.
e.g.
var animation = new DoubleAnimation
{
From = 0,
To = 8,
Duration = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 0, 2),
AutoReverse = true
};
control.Effect = new BlurEffect();
// How to cycle the From and To on the Blur Radius?
I am uncertain how to dynamically create an animation in code behind to make this possible.

Answer 1

This article shows how to define an animation and story board in code.
You'd need to add the BlurEffect and use RadiusProperty of blureffect instead of RotateTransform.AngleProperty like this:
control.Effect.BeginAnimation(Blureffect.RadiusProperty, animation);
-edit-
I see now that you're using Silverlight, not wpf (where Effect implements IAnimatable)
i'll try and find a solution for silverlight
-edit2-
Have you seen/tried this? Msdn also has a sample for silverlight
-edit3-
Your direction got me towards the right answer which is as follows:
private void BlurSomething(FrameworkElement control)
{
var storyboard = new Storyboard();
var animation = new DoubleAnimation
{
From = 0,
To = 8,
Duration = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 0, 1, 0),
AutoReverse = true
};
var effect = new BlurEffect();
control.Effect = effect;
storyboard.Children.Add(animation);
Storyboard.SetTarget(storyboard, control.Effect);
Storyboard.SetTargetProperty(storyboard, new PropertyPath("Radius"));
storyboard.Begin();
}
It should be noted that Silverlight does not make animations as easy as WPF, but in the end this can be done.