OK I have looked and searched all i want to do is fire a storyboard animation from my view model onto my view. The problem is there is just simply too much boilerplate code to get a simple thing like myStoryboard.Begin(); firing. So what are the methods that you use? Currently, I am using Silverlight 3, MVVM Light.
EDIT: I can't use something like the Visual State Manager since my animations involve keyframes and I don't want to redo them again into states.
I usually cheat and allow the ViewModel access to the View through an interface. I can then add code-behind for some of the bindings from VM to View that are awkward with pure XAML.
You could also create a DependencyProperty on the View, Bind it to a boolean property on the VM then create a trigger to fire the Animation when the property becomes True. This still requires some boilerplate in the code-behind to define the DP, but at least now the Binding engine is still performing the communication.