Animated Window Effects with "Toast" Popup Demo

[jmcilhinney]

VB version here.

FormAnimator class - A helper class that you can add an instance of to a form to provide animation when the form is shown, hidden or closed. Supported animations are Roll (form is unrolled and rolled up from one edge to the opposite), Centre (form unrolls from the centre out and rolls up from all edges in), Slide (form slides in and out from one edge to the opposite) and Blend (form fades in and out). Roll and Slide animations can be up, down, left, right or diagonal. To use this class just add a single line of code similar to this to your form:

private FormAnimator animator;
 
public Form1()
{
    InitializeComponent();
 
    this.animator = new FormAnimator(this,
                                     FormAnimator.AnimationMethod.Slide,
                                     FormAnimator.AnimationDirection.Up,
                                     400);
}

NOTE: The C# Toast demo will be here soon. Watch this space.