Running a Storyboard as a Task

Sometimes you have some code that needs to run after a storyboard has completed. In my case I'm working on a little board game, and after each move (which I animate using a Storyboard), I need to figure out the next move, and either start a new play-animation or pass the turn to the other player.

Therefore I run in a loop until the turn is over. You can detect when a storyboard has finished when the "Completed" event triggers, but that makes for some recursive spaghetti code. It's much easier if I could just "await" the storyboard using a task. So I created the little extension method below that makes this possible. All you have to do to start and wait for the storyboard to finish is:

    await myStoryboard.BeginAsync();

Below is the little extension method (which also serves as a general example on how you turn an event-based class into an awaitable Task using the TaskCompletionSource):

using System;

using System.Threading.Tasks;

using Windows.UI.Xaml.Media.Animation;

namespace SharpGIS

{

    public static class StoryboardExtensions

    {

        public static Task BeginAsync(this Storyboard storyboard)

        {

            System.Threading.Tasks.TaskCompletionSource<bool> tcs = new TaskCompletionSource<bool>();

            if (storyboard == null)

                tcs.SetException(new ArgumentNullException());

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