Animated GIFs in WPF

If you ever tried to add a animated GIF to your image control in WPF, you’d be disappointed to find that it doesn’t play and merely shows the first in your image sequence. Here’s a combined list of ways and work arounds for this problem.

 

Here’s the best solution I found, a working animated gif control (host):

Written by Greg E. Wilson on Pragmatic TSQL Programmer.

http://www.solidrockstable.com/blogs/PragmaticTSQL/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=37

The animated GIF control was tested and works well in my application!

 

Here’s the help thread on MSDN:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wpf/thread/93d50a97-0d8d-4b18-992e-cd3200693337

In here, solutions like using the MediaElement control and Windows Forms picturebox control are suggested.

 

Here’s a thread at StackOverflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/210922/how-do-i-get-an-animated-gif-to-work-in-wpf

 

Here’s a sample project with an animated gif control on codeproject:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/animatedgifinwpf.aspx