How do you show animated gifs with .NET Compact Framework

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Tobias picture Tobias · Nov 17, 2008 · Viewed 7.4k times · Source

I would like to display an animated gif on a .NET Compact Form. Currently I use a PictureBox control and toggle between .Visible = true and .Visible = false.

After .Visible = true the gif is shown however it's not animated. How can I get the .NET Compact Framework to animate it?

I already tried this but it doesn't work.

Answer

JaredPar picture JaredPar · Nov 17, 2008

By default the .Net Compact framework does not support displaying GIF based animations on a Windows Form. It is possbile to code up a custom animator that will essentially do the same. Here's a link to a sample class for displaying a GIF on the compact framework.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa446483.aspx

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