How to build splash screen in windows forms application

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I need to show splash screen on my application start for few seconds  Does anybody know how to implement this   Will be much appreciate for the help

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The other answers here cover this well  but it is worth knowing that there is built in functionality for splash screens in Visual Studio   If you open the project properties for the windows form app and look at the Application tab  there is a  Splash screen   option at the bottom   You simply pick which form in your app you want to display as the splash screen and it will take care of showing it when the app starts and hiding it once your main form is displayed   You still need to set up your form as described above  with the correct borders  positioning  sizing etc

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create splash  private void timer1 Tick object sender  EventArgs e        counter        progressBar1 Value   counter  5         label2 Text    5 counter  ToString        if  counter   20                timer1 Stop            this Close            this AutoScaleDimensions   new System Drawing SizeF 6F  13F   this AutoScaleMode   System Windows Forms AutoScaleMode Font  this BackColor   System Drawing SystemColors GradientInactiveCaption  this ClientSize   new System Drawing Size 397  283   this ControlBox   false  this Controls Add this label2   this Controls Add this progressBar1   this Controls Add this label1   this ForeColor   System Drawing SystemColors ControlLightLight  this FormBorderStyle   System Windows Forms FormBorderStyle None  this Name    Splash   this ShowIcon   false  this ShowInTaskbar   false  this StartPosition   System Windows Forms FormStartPosition CenterScreen  this ResumeLayout false   this PerformLayout      Then in your application  sp   new Splash    sp ShowDialog

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I ended up doing slightly different  since I was not happy with the other solutions  Basically I did not get them working as intended for some reason  I did not want the splash to show for a fixed period of time  but rather as long as the MainForm was loading  and load time vary depending on how fast the connection toward the DB was  In short my MainForm constructor spawn a thread that show my SplashForm  and on the event OnShown the splash thread is aborted  At first this did not work  and the SplashForm would at some times hang  hidden   and when closing the MainForm it would wait on the splash thread to exit  The solution was to catch the ThreadAbortException and call Dispose on the form  Example code private readonly Thread  splashThread   null   public MainForm         InitializeComponent         splashThread   new Thread new ThreadStart DoSplash         splashThread Start       private void DoSplash         var splashForm   new SplashForm        try               splashForm ShowDialog              catch  ThreadAbortException                splashForm Dispose             protected override void OnShown EventArgs e        if   splashThread    null  amp  amp   splashThread IsAlive                splashThread Abort              base OnShown e

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Maybe a bit late to answer but i would like to share my way  I found an easy way with threads in the main program for a winform application   Lets say you have your form  splashscreen  with an animation  and your  main  which has all your application code     STAThread      static void Main                 Application EnableVisualStyles            Application SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault false           Thread mythread          mythread   new Thread new ThreadStart ThreadLoop            mythread Start            Application Run new MainForm mythread                          public static void ThreadLoop                 Application Run new SplashScreenForm                        In your main form in the constructor    public MainForm Thread splashscreenthread                InitializeComponent               add your constructor code          splashscreenthread Abort                        This way the splashscreen will last just the time for your main form to load   Your splashcreen form should have his own way to animate display information  In my project my splashscreen start a new thread  and every x milliseconds it changes his main picture to another which is a slightly different gear  giving the illusion of a rotation   example of my splashscreen   int status   0  private bool IsRunning   false      public Form1                 InitializeComponent            StartAnimation               public void StartAnimation                 backgroundWorker1 WorkerReportsProgress   false          backgroundWorker1 WorkerSupportsCancellation   true          IsRunning   true          backgroundWorker1 RunWorkerAsync                public void StopAnimation                 backgroundWorker1 CancelAsync               delegate void UpdatingThreadAnimation        public void UpdateAnimationFromThread                  try                       if  label1 InvokeRequired    false                                UpdateAnimation                              else                               UpdatingThreadAnimation d   new UpdatingThreadAnimation UpdateAnimationFromThread                   this Invoke d  new object                                         catch Exception e                               private void UpdateAnimation             if status   0                mypicture image   image1       else if status   1                mypicture image   image2              doing as much as needed        status            if status gt 1    change here if you have more image  the idea is to set a cycle of images                       status   0                    this Refresh           private void backgroundWorker1 DoWork object sender  DoWorkEventArgs e                BackgroundWorker worker   sender as BackgroundWorker          while  IsRunning    true                        System Threading Thread Sleep 100               UpdateAnimationFromThread                      Hope this will help some people  Sorry if i have made some mistakes  English is not my first language

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Try This   namespace SplashScreen       public partial class frmSplashScreen   Form               public frmSplashScreen                         InitializeComponent                       public int LeftTime   get  set             private void frmSplashScreen Load object sender  EventArgs e                        LeftTime   20              timer1 Start                       private void timer1 Tick object sender  EventArgs e                        if  LeftTime  gt  0                                LeftTime--                            else                               timer1 Stop                    new frmHomeScreen   Show                    this Hide

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Here are some guideline steps      Create a borderless form  this will be your splash screen  On application start  start a timer  with a few seconds interval  Show your Splash Form On Timer Tick event  stop timer and close Splash form - then show your main application form   Give this a go and if you get stuck then come back and ask more specific questions relating to your problems

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I wanted a splash screen that would display until the main program form was ready to be displayed  so timers etc were no use to me  I also wanted to keep it as simple as possible  My application starts with  abbreviated    static void Main         Splash frmSplash   new Splash        frmSplash Show        Application Run new ReportExplorer frmSplash        Then  ReportExplorer has the following   public ReportExplorer Splash frmSplash        this frmSplash   frmSplash      InitializeComponent        Finally  after all the initialisation is complete   if  frmSplash    null          frmSplash Close         frmSplash   null      Maybe I m missing something  but this seems a lot easier than mucking about with threads and timers

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Here is the easiest way of creating a splash screen  First of all  add the following line of code before the namespace in Form1 cs code  using System Threading  Now  follow the following steps   Add a new form in you application  Name this new form as FormSplashScreen  In the BackgroundImage property  choose an image from one of your folders  Add a progressBar  In the Dock property  set it as Bottom  In MarksAnimationSpeed property  set as 50  In your main form  named as Form1 cs by default  create the following method   private void StartSplashScreen           Application Run new Forms FormSplashScreen          In the constructor method of Form1 cs  add the following code   public Form1           Thread t   new Thread new ThreadStart StartSplashScreen         t Start         Thread Sleep 5000         InitializeComponent     This code is automatically generated by Visual Studio       t Abort         Now  just run the application  it is going to work perfectly

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First  create your splash screen as a borderless  immovable form with your image on it  set to initially display at the center of the screen  colored the way you want  All of this can be set from within the designer  specifically  you want to    Set the form s ControlBox  MaximizeBox  MinimizeBox and ShowIcon properties to  False  Set the StartPosition property to  CenterScreen  Set the FormBorderStyle property to  None  Set the form s MinimumSize and MaximumSize to be the same as its initial Size    Then  you need to decide where to show it and where to dismiss it  These two tasks need to occur on opposite sides of the main startup logic of your program  This could be in your application s main   routine  or possibly in your main application form s Load handler  wherever you re creating large expensive objects  reading settings from the hard drive  and generally taking a long time to do stuff behind the scenes before the main application screen displays   Then  all you have to do is create an instance of your form  Show   it  and keep a reference to it while you do your startup initialization  Once your main form has loaded  Close   it   If your splash screen will have an animated image on it  the window will need to be  double-buffered  as well  and you will need to be absolutely sure that all initialization logic happens outside the GUI thread  meaning you cannot have your main loading logic in the mainform s Load handler  you ll have to create a BackgroundWorker or some other threaded routine

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Try this code  public partial class ssplashscreen   Form               public ssplashscreen                                         InitializeComponent                           private void timer1 Tick object sender  EventArgs e                        progressBar1 Increment 1               if  progressBar1 Value    100                                timer1 Stop                    this Hide                    Form frm   new login                    frm Show

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simple and easy solution to create splash screen   open new form use name  SPLASH  change background image whatever you want select progress bar select timer   now set timer tick in timer   private void timer1 Tick object sender  EventArgs e        progressBar1 Increment 1       if  progressBar1 Value    100  timer1 Stop                add new form use name  FORM-1 and use following command in FORM 1   note  Splash form works before opening your form1   add this library  using System Threading   create function  public void splash              Application Run new splash        use following command in initialization like below   public partial class login   Form            public login                 Thread t   new Thread new ThreadStart splash            t Start            Thread Sleep 15625            InitializeComponent             enter code here          t Abort               http   solutions musanitech com c-create-splash-screen

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First you should create a form with or without Border  border-less is preferred for these things   public class SplashForm   Form       Form  Parent      BackgroundWorker worker      public SplashForm Form parent                 InitializeComponent             BackgroundWorker worker   new BackgroundWorker             this worker DoWork    new System ComponentModel DoWorkEventHandler this worker  DoWork            backgroundWorker1 RunWorkerAsync              Parent   parent            private void worker  DoWork object sender  DoWorkEventArgs e                 Thread sleep 500            this hide              Parent show                   At Main you should use that     static class Program                        STAThread              static void Main                                 Application EnableVisualStyles                    Application SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault false                   Application Run new SplashForm

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