The idea for researching the code for this article came after reading Tim Brook's article on how to switch views in a WTL SDI application. This technique is quite useful for Windows Mobile applications because the platform does not support MDI (although you can use tabbed views). After testing Tim's idea, I thought about animating the child view transitions. This would be a bit better than just replacing the old view with the new one. Why not add a bit of FX and make it a bit more interesting to the eye? Also, the developer may want to use the child transition animations to convey the idea of spatial navigation to the user:
