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.