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Animate Theme transition, maybe other color changes too?

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#7,274 opened on Aug 13, 2020

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Big s/o to @stmoy who helped point me at the fact that this is possible with XAML.

refer to: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/design/motion/motion-in-practice#implicit-animations

Also refer to the "Implicit Transitions" page in the xaml controls gallery. implicit-transitions-sample

Apparently we can add a trivial amount of markup to our XAML to get some pretty slick color transitions. I think this would be awesome to add.

(maybe also relevant: #1001, #7216 )

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Locate the XAML resource dictionaries that define theme colors (e.g., in `src/cascadia/` or similar) and add `Platform:ImplicitTransition` markup to color resource references to enable smooth transitions.
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