Universal Windows® Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed

Applying Theme Transitions to Elements

So how do you apply a theme transition to an element? Every UIElement has a Transitions property that can be set to a collection of Transition objects (the base class for all theme transitions). Using one of the theme transitions called EntranceThemeTransition as an example, the following XAML applies one to a Button on a Page:

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<Page ...>   <Grid Background="{ThemeResource ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}">     <Button Content="A Button with a Theme Transition">       < Button.Transitions >         < TransitionCollection>           < EntranceThemeTransition/>         </ TransitionCollection>       </ Button.Transitions>     </Button>   </Grid> </Page>

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