how-to-define-a-name-scope.md

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How to: Define a Name Scope	Learn how to create a NameScope and define it by registering the target objects' names with the element that owns that name scope.	03/30/2017	csharp vb	name scope [WPF], defining Storyboards [WPF], animating in procedural code animation [WPF], Storyboards [WPF], in procedural code	4f361925-6a08-40dc-8231-a61111c6b28b

How to: Define a Name Scope

To animate with xref:System.Windows.Media.Animation.Storyboard in code, you must create a xref:System.Windows.NameScope and register the target objects' names with the element that owns that name scope. In the following example, a xref:System.Windows.NameScope is created for myMainPanel. Two buttons, button1 and button2, are added to the panel, and their names registered. Several animations and a xref:System.Windows.Media.Animation.Storyboard are created. The storyboard's xref:System.Windows.Media.Animation.Storyboard.Begin%2A method is used to start the animations.

Because button1, button2, and myMainPanel all share the same name scope, any one of them can be used with the xref:System.Windows.Media.Animation.Storyboard xref:System.Windows.Media.Animation.Storyboard.Begin%2A method to start the animations.

Example

[!code-csharpStoryboardBeginAnimation_procedural_snip#NameScopeExample] [!code-vbStoryboardBeginAnimation_procedural_snip#NameScopeExample]

See also

• Animate a Property by Using a Storyboard
• Animation Overview