How to draw an arc in winRT with animation?

Question

I am a newbie to WinRT and Blend and I need to draw digits 1, 2 etc with drawing effect in my WinRT application. The requirement is like the application will be drawing the

Answer 1

If you build a custom control and need to animate the dependency properties for it, I've written a blog post to help at http://danielgary.net/animating-custom-dependencyproperties/

The gist of it is you wire up an event for when your Dependency Property changes and update your layout code inside there.