Hi. To cause the XamDataCarousel to auto-scroll to a specific position (like the cover flow UI in iTunes), you will need to write a little code.

First you will need to get the XamCarouselPanel from the XamDataCarousel to access built-in navigation commands in the Panel control.

The following method will do just that. Pass in the XamDataCarousel control for the parameter to this method...

XamCarouselPanel GetCarouselPanel(Visual visual)
{
    XamCarouselPanel foundPanel = default(XamCarouselPanel);
    for (int i = 0; i < VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(visual); i++)
    {
        Visual child = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(visual, i) as Visual;
        if (child != null)
        {
            if (child is XamCarouselPanel && visual is ItemsPresenter)
            {
                object temp = child;
                foundPanel = (XamCarouselPanel)temp;
            }
            else 
                foundPanel = GetCarouselPanel(child);

            if (foundPanel != null) break;
        }
    }
    return foundPanel;
}

Once you have the XamCarouselPanel, you can execute the Navigation commands found in the XamCarouselPanelCommands class. The following shows how to call this command once you have the carousel panel:

carouselPanel.ExecuteCommand(XamCarouselPanelCommands.NavigateToNextItem);

You will need to handle the events you wish to trigger the carousel scroll. You will then need to keep track of the position to scroll to. The following posts provide more infromation about scrolling a carousel and keeping track of it's positions: