Turn off animation effects

build/pipelines/templates/run-ui-tests.yaml

@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ jobs:
   variables:
     skipComponentGovernanceDetection: true
   steps:
-  - checkout: none
+  - checkout: self
+    fetchDepth: 1
 
   - task: ScreenResolutionUtility@1
     displayName: Set resolution to 1920x1080
@@ -27,6 +28,11 @@ jobs:
       width: 1920
       height: 1080
 
+  - task: PowerShell@2
+    displayName: Turn off animation effects
+    inputs:
+      filePath: $(Build.SourcesDirectory)\build\scripts\TurnOffAnimationEffects.ps1
+
   - task: DownloadBuildArtifacts@0
     displayName: Download MsixBundle and CalculatorUITests
     inputs:

build/scripts/TurnOffAnimationEffects.ps1

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
+# Licensed under the MIT License.
+
+<#
+.SYNOPSIS
+    Disables animations on the system. Equivalent to turning off the "Animation effects" setting in the Windows Settings app.
+#>
+
+Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Runtime.WindowsRuntime
+$asTaskGeneric = ([System.WindowsRuntimeSystemExtensions].GetMethods() | ? { $_.Name -eq 'AsTask' -and $_.GetParameters().Count -eq 1 -and $_.GetParameters()[0].ParameterType.Name -eq 'IAsyncOperation`1' })[0]
+
+Function WaitForAsyncAction($WinRtTask, $ResultType) {
+    $asTask = $asTaskGeneric.MakeGenericMethod($ResultType)
+    $task = $asTask.Invoke($null, @($WinRtTask))
+    $task.GetAwaiter().GetResult()
+}
+
+[Windows.UI.ViewManagement.Core.UISettingsController,Windows.UI.ViewManagement.Core,ContentType=WindowsRuntime] | Out-Null
+
+$controller = WaitForAsyncAction ([Windows.UI.ViewManagement.Core.UISettingsController]::RequestDefaultAsync())  ([Windows.UI.ViewManagement.Core.UISettingsController])
+
+$controller.SetAnimationsEnabled($false)