Comments on Mobile PractiCEs: Creating a Splash screen for your .Net CF Applicat...

Excellent, thank you!

2010-09-27T18:06:38.019-03:00

Excellent, thank you!

First of all, sorry for the delay, these were very...

2009-07-24T09:37:41.711-03:00

First of all, sorry for the delay, these were very busy weeks.
Regarding your question, in my sample you can find some placeholders that currently say something like:

//...Initialization first steps
Thread.Sleep(1000);

You should replace Thread.Sleep(1000) with a call to your LoadCSV code.
About how many percentage it should take, that's a very subjective question, it depends on your business actually. You should be able to estimate how many time it can take from the whole intialization process, and if it depends on the size of the csv file, you can use the file size to improve your estimation.
i.e. If you load a 100K file and it takes 2 seconds, you can estimate that each 100K will take 2 secs, so you can estimate better how it will take based on the actual size of the file to read.
Btw, if it will take several seconds, I recommend you to update the progress bar while you're loading the files.
i.e. if your file is 500K and you estimate that will take 50 percent of your intialization, then you can update it in 10 percentage steps every 100K loaded.
To achieve that, you may need to pass your Splash form and the current progress as parameters to your loading method.

HTH!

Hello, Thanks for this nice and simple article...

2009-07-17T05:33:25.189-03:00

Hello,

Thanks for this nice and simple article. It helped me achive what I was looking for.

But I have a query and hope you will be able to help me out:
I have added the screen and code to shpw the screen as you have mentioned. Now, in my Form_Load, I read 2 csv files. Form load is being executed after splash screen loading is completed. Shouldn't that be executed in Application.DoEvents().

What should I do to read those files during the splash screen is being shown? And how should be time be set based on the time required to read the files.

I look forward for your response at truptikm@hotmail.com or here on this site.

Thanks

Thanks for this nice and easy application. I was l...

2009-07-16T08:41:21.387-03:00

Thanks for this nice and easy application. I was looking out for something like this only. Open a window from main class and close the window to release from memory. I didn't wanted the opened window to be as a main window and keep it hidden. It simply utilizes resources that are of no use.

Thanks

Hi Jose,

I am new to windows mobile applica...

2009-02-10T07:50:00.000-02:00

Hi Jose,

I am new to windows mobile application,when i add the splashscreen form into my project im getting error as NullReference

backgroundBmp = (Bitmap)Properties.Resources.ResourceManager.GetObject("SplashBitmap");

SplashBitmap is in Resource Folder only,but still i cant find error can you help me.

Regards
Bahru

Comments on Mobile PractiCEs: Creating a Splash screen for your .Net CF Applicat...

Excellent, thank you!

First of all, sorry for the delay, these were very...

Hello, Thanks for this nice and simple article...

Thanks for this nice and easy application. I was l...

Hi Jose,I am new to windows mobile applica...

Hi Jose,

I am new to windows mobile applica...