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Big 'ol WPF Animation Wizard Sample

I just created a sample that serves as a walkthrough wizard for teaching WPF animations. Besides teaching you the basics of WPF animations in an interactive and relatively entertaining way, there are a bunch of cool effects integrated into the wizard

WPF: Using Bitmap Effects to create drop shadows, outer glows, etc.

In WPF, there are a number of effects you can add on top of UI like drop shadows, glows, blurs and more using Bitmap Effects. Adding Bitmap Effects is VERY easy. Below is an example of a drop shadow bitmap effect applied to a button. The image above shows

WPF Animations Tips and Tricks

Although WPF animations are easy ( see earlier post ), that doesn't mean there aren't some tricky areas of animations you should be aware of. The WPF animation team and SDK just created a list of tips and tricks for working with animations that we will

WPF Animations are Easy

Creating animations in WPF is easier than it sounds. No explicit use of timers is required, in fact you can create many useful animations using pure markup (XAML). Perhaps the best use of animations is to spice up UI. Most properties of objects can be
 
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