Splash Screen

[wossname]

I want to have a splash screen come up at the start of my program. Normal sort of thing, shows a nice picture while the rest of the app loads. The image is a quite large (100kb) jpg.

Should I start a new thread when the app loads and open the form from there?

The form should disappear after 2-3 seconds or so.

What is the best way to do this, bearing in mind that I don't want to embed the image in the exe?

[Green]

If you talking about Windows Form App., why don't you open a non-resiable form with timer on it. I did it in VB6 and don't see reason why it won't work in .NET.

[wossname]

To get around the picture problem I thought I'd do this:

Have the image file in with the exe, then load it into the splash form at runtime after making sure the file has not been edited (using a checksum, so people can't edit my picture and take credit for my app) then set the timer running.