Topic 14. Fundamentals of visual component animation and multimedia application development with Windows Presentation Foundation

Goal: get to know the WPF property animation system, transformations, and multimedia playback; learn to create DoubleAnimation, ColorAnimation, and ThicknessAnimation animations and Storyboard storyboards with triggers, easing functions, and keyframes; master frame-by-frame animation with CompositionTarget.Rendering and sound and video playback with the SoundPlayer, MediaPlayer, and MediaElement classes.

Lecture contents

1. Graphics and property animation — WPF graphics: retained mode · Transformations · The property animation system · Animation timing parameters
2. Storyboards and keyframes — Storyboard storyboards and triggers · Easing functions and keyframes
3. Frame-by-frame animation and performance — Frame-by-frame animation · Animation performance
4. Images, sound, and video — Images and sound · Video and MediaElement
5. Common mistakes — Common mistakes

Practice and review

• Practice — 3 worked examples with complete code
• Tasks — 30 variants, each with tasks at three difficulty levels
• Summary — conclusions, self-check questions, and useful links