How to make an ellipse follow a curve on a canvas

Question

I am having an issue trying to get an ellipse to properly follow a path on my canvas. I supposed the problem stems from the fact that my mini syntax defines movement between

Answer 1

Instead of simultaneously animating Canvas.Left and Canvas.Top you may perhaps also animate the Matrix property of a MatrixTransform that is assigned to the RenderTransform property of the Ellipse. The Matrix would be animated by a MatrixAnimationUsingPath.

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Using a MatrixAnimationUsingPath would even allow to rotate the animated element along the tangent of the animation path, by setting DoesRotateWithTangent="True". That would of course only be visible if the animated element wouldn't be a circle.