Level: Introductory
Prerequisite: None
Ken Getz
Senior Consultant
MCW Technologies, LLC
Ken Getz is a developer, writer, and trainer, working as a senior consultant with MCW Technologies, LLC. In addition to writing hundreds of technical articles over the past fifteen years, he is lead courseware author for AppDev (http://www.appdev.com). Ken has co-authored several technical books for developers, including the best-selling ASP.NET Developer’s Jumpstart, Access Developer’s Handbook series, and VBA Developer’s Handbook series, and continues to write technical articles. Ken is a member of the INETA Speakers Bureau, and speaks regularly at a large number of industry events, including 1105 Media’s VSLive, and Microsoft’s Tech-Ed.
Animation in XAML is both simple, and incredibly complex. To get started, however, just requires learning about a few different XAML elements, and then learning how to use the tools. This session will get you started, and show you enough to create simple animations.
You will:
- Understand how animation works in XAML applications
- Examine animation, storyboard, trigger objects
- Learn to start animations in code
- Work with DoubleAnimation, ColorAnimation, and PointAnimation objects
- Examine properties of the animation classes
- Try out various easing functions
- Use Expression Blend to interactively create animations