Animations: Sliding & Fading controls on a C# form (winforms)

Question

I\'m trying to implement a way to animate (translate, fade) controls around (more than one at the same time possibly) elegantly. For example, lets say I had a picture in the

Answer 1

I recommend that you switch to WPF; that would make it far easier.

It is completely impossible to fade controls in WinForms; Windows controls cannot have opacity.
The closest you can get would be to render the control and its area on the form to a pair of bitmaps, then crossfade the bitmaps in a PictureBox using a ColorMatrix.

To slide controls in WinForms, you can use a Timer to gradually change the Top and/or Left properties of the controls and move them across the form. However, you'll get an annoying flicker, which is (AFAIK) impossible to remove.