splash screen... What and how it gets loaded ?

[akshaycjoshi]

I have seen several applications showing one splash screen in the begining which has a progress bar telling the status of loading.

SO what gets loaded actually ?

Please give one practical and easy example.

Maybe this..
Suppose i have one main form and that form has instances of 3 other forms.
The three other forms are shown and hidden by 3 buttons.

when the main form gets loaded , i want the 3 instances to be created, which maybe time consuming.

So how would i make the splash screen ?

[sachinkale123]

Check out splash screens from following locations...

CodeProject: A Pretty Good Splash Screen in C#. Free source code and programming help

best of luck

[vekipeki]

It is nothing more than a Windows form which can be shown quickly while some other operation needs to be done, just to notify the user that the program is already running.

A simple solution such as this will work:

private void MainForm_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    // show the splash form
    SplashForm splash = new SplashForm();
    splash.Show();

    // this is a long operation
    for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
    {
        // do some work
        System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(500);
    }

    // close the splash
    splash.Close();

    // bring the MainForm to front
    this.WindowState = FormWindowState.Normal;
}

There is a lot of open-source solutions for a splash screen, for example at CodeProject, so you can try searching there also.

Oops, I didn't see the previous answer, sorry! :)