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Animation and Visual State

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One of the things that sharply distinguish XAML from simpler markup languages such as HTML is that XAML supports declarative animation. That is, you can indicate a property and the change you’d like to have happen to that property over a set amount of time. For example, you might indicate that the height of an object show grow from 45 to 90 pixels over 1 second.

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Liberty, J. (2012). Animation and Visual State. In: Windows 8 XAML Primer. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4912-2_6

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