A Simple WPF Loading Animation

August 21st, 2009

Okay, so I needed a very simple and clean loading animation for a multi threaded application I was working on to notify the user that something was in the process of being loaded.  So of course the first place I looked was Google, because I figured someone else has already written one and I could save myself some time by just using theirs.  Well, after almost an hour searching, I found nothing.  So much for being a timesaver.  Now, don’t get me wrong, I found a couple of WPF animations out there, but none of them really fit what I needed.  So I just decided to bite the bullet and create my own.  After creating the animation I decided to share the fruits of my labor so that anyone else who is looking for the same thing I was, or something similar, wouldn’t have as much trouble as I did.

Here is what it looks like.

loadingAnimation

Here is the source: Download the Loading Animation Source

I hope it is useful to someone besides me.

Brian Lagunas WPF , ,

  1. matt
    August 22nd, 2009 at 21:01 | #1

    There are a lot of hits for ajax loading animations. #1 was http://www.ajaxload.info/ , it pretty good

  2. August 22nd, 2009 at 22:01 | #2

    @matt

    Thanks for the tip, but ajax doesn’t do me any good in WPF, but I will bookmark it for my next ASP.NET project.

  3. anon
    August 22nd, 2009 at 22:46 | #3

    Thanks for the source.

    BTW here is another article about this type of animation that I found helpful.
    http://blog.wpfwonderland.com/2009/06/26/arranging-shapes-in-circle-with-expression-blend-part-one/

  4. August 27th, 2009 at 01:09 | #4

    The animation works fine.
    Like to see more stuff on animations – WPF

  5. September 23rd, 2009 at 17:18 | #5

    This was a great resource thx for putting it up on the web.

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