Introducing Animations

WPF offers lots of interesting features about graphics and multimedia to provide a great user experience with rich client applications; animations are one of these features. They enable visual elements (or just some portions of them) to move along the UI or to dynamically change their aspect during the specified interval. Subsequent sections explain how you can apply animations to WPF visual elements. There are different kinds of animations in WPF; and we cover the most common of them, DoubleAnimation and ColorAnimation.

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There is a special type of animation based on timelines that is not easy to implement with Visual Studio, whereas it is the easiest animation that you can realize with Expression Blend. With that ...

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