Simpler Animation in WPF

WPF has a very powerful animation system built into it. But you can tell just by looking at the design that Microsoft created it before certain features became available in C#.

It works by storing a reference to an object that has the ability to modify the value of a property on another object. That’s not very clear in abstract, so an example will be helpful. The "other object" might be a rectangle painted on the screen. The property on that object might be its opacity (the inverse of transparency). So an animation is an object that contains code that modifies the opacity of the rectangle, causing it to fade out of existence in a visually satisfying way.