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WPF transitions using pixel shaders and Blend SDK

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http://pwlodek.blogspot.com/ 596 days, 2 hours, 15 minutes ago

WPF transitions are a very nice way to turn standard, boring application interactions into great user experiences, and show the author pays attention to details. There are basically two ways of implementing transitions in WPF. You can do a manual transition using RenderTransform to modify the visuals’ position, scaling and rotation. Or you can leverage pixel shaders. In this post I will discuss how to build a TransitionControl, which beautifully animates transitions from one visual state into the other. To demonstrate the effect, I updated my wizard demo so that transitions between consecutive steps are nicely animated. I will also show what it takes to add transition effect to regular TabControl.