Follow a curved path with an Image

Question

I am trying to follow a path with an image in a Windows Store App. I want the image to follow that path and rotate while it follows it. Think in a plane doing a curve or something like this.

Among tutorials for silverlight/wpf, I have found several things that I don't have in a windows store app, such as: DoubleAnimationUsingPath or MatrixAnimationUsingPath or even PathListBox.

I have also tried to do that animation in Blend (although my experience in the windows world is small, the experience in blend is worse) but I can't even do Path -> Make Layout Path.

How can I do the something like the unicycle animation in a windows metro app?

EDIT

I want to use a path because I want to generate those paths randomly. Doing key frames in blend by hand works for a specific controlled path. However, generate those key frames randomly seems a lot more work that simply generate a random arc path that can be followed.

Answer 1

I ended up porting the Petzold solution (the solution Hermit Dave gave and that I was trying to avoid).

However, I had to do some changes.

I passed the "xFormUnicycleMan" MatrixTransform as a depdendency property of the MatrixAnimationUsingPath with:

TargetElement="{Binding ElementName=xformUnicycleMan}"

Then, in the OnCompositionTargetRendering I get it and I have modified the values I need to take using the following:

MatrixTransform matrixTransform = this.TargetElement as MatrixTransform;
PropertyPath targetProperty = new PropertyPath("MatrixProperty");
PropertyInfo fieldInfo = 
    matrixTransform.GetType().GetRuntimeProperty(targetProperty.Path);  
DependencyProperty dependencyProp = 
    fieldInfo.GetValue(matrixTransform) as DependencyProperty;

Thanks for the help provided from @Miek.

If someone has a better solution I would apreciate.