An Example It's surprising, really, how many dependency properties are defined as doubles, so let's look at a simple DoubleAnimation example, just to get a sense of what you can do (and, of course, how to do it.) In truth, WPF animations have so many knobs and buttons to tweak that they can be difficult to code from scratch, and you'll need to do a lot of experimentation for anything very tricky. (If you're going to be doing a lot of animation, you might want to explore Microsoft Expression Blend, which has wonderful interactive tools for defining all kinds of sophisticated storyboards.) 748 Going further