How to animate a Window?

Question

With WPF, how do I animate the position of a Window. I tried to simply animate the Left/Top properties, but it didn't work. Does anybody know how?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Maybe you can try adding a StoryBoard to it using Expression Blend. You can control the TimeLine of changing the property of the Window in the Blend and just activate the animation in the .cs code.

Answer 2

Just create a Storyboard for the window you're trying to animate.

Here's an example for a window named w1:

<Window.Triggers>
  <EventTrigger RoutedEvent="Window.Loaded">
    <EventTrigger.Actions>
      <BeginStoryboard>
        <Storyboard BeginTime="0" Duration="Forever">
          <DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName="w1" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Window.Top)" From="0" To="300" AutoReverse="true" BeginTime="0:0:0" Duration="0:0:1" RepeatBehavior="Forever"/>
          <DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName="w1" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Window.Left)" From="0" To="400" AutoReverse="true" BeginTime="0:0:0" Duration="0:0:2" RepeatBehavior="Forever"/>
        </Storyboard>
      </BeginStoryboard>
    </EventTrigger.Actions>
  </EventTrigger>  
</Window.Triggers>