Help with SlashScreen and ProgressBar

Alright. I have a fairly good application which takes a bit of time to load. So, I added a splashscreen (hoping that this would be a loading screen) and added a progress bar. Now, for my question. How do I make the progress bar's value show how much my application has loaded?

Any changes, solutions, or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

You know your application best, and you obviously know what operations are occurring in the form load event for your first/main/only form. Let the main form startup in a hidden mode, with the splash screen showing, but have the progress bar be updated from the main form's page load event, after every significant event. So, in the page load event:

VB Code:

GetValuesFromDatabase()
'Update progress bar to 30%
PopulateAllControls()
'Then update progress bar to 50%