[RESOLVED] Halt Splash Screen
I rarely have a need to use a splash screen until now. I also cannot name the control for NDA reasons.
What I'm doing is connecting to something asynchronously in the splash screen and I cannot continue unto the application's startup form until it is connected. During this time there may be some exceptions thrown and I handle those, but I know that everything is connected whenever I reach the ConnectedCompleted event of the thing that I'm connecting to.
My question is there something that I can do that will keep the splash screen up until the ConnectedCompleted event has fired then once it has fired I can let the splash screen? If not, what I'm thinking of doing is just using the splash screen as the startup form and just calling Show on the actual startup form and not setting a splash screen for the application.
Re: [RESOLVED] Halt Splash Screen
because every excuse for a splash screen is different... I guess... I don't know.
I suppose it's because more often than not, people have a splash screen because they think they need one, not because they really do. With the way MS did it with the application architecture the splash screen is actually launched on a secondary thread... so it's not even usable... nor can you use it to communicate back... that was one of the hardest lessons I learned early on when I was trying to load data in the background.
And then the call isn't even async... bleh. so, yeah, I'm not sure I get it either.
-tg