MCTS Self-Paced Training: Styles and Animation in Windows Presentation Foundation

  • 7/9/2008
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Lesson 2: Animations

Animations are another new feature of WPF. Animations allow you to change the value of a property over the course of a set period of time. Using this technique, you can create a variety of visual effects, including causing controls to grow or move abut the user interface, to change color gradually, or to change other properties over time. In this lesson, you learn how to create animations that animate a variety of property types and use Storyboard objects to control the playback of those animations.

After this lesson, you will be able to:

  • Create and use animations

  • Control animations with the Storyboard class

  • Control timelines and playback of animations

  • Implement simultaneous animations

  • Use Actions to control animation playback

  • Implement animations that use key frames

  • Create and start animations in code

Estimated lesson time: 30 minutes

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