DevExpress: Splash Screen in C#

Step 1: Click New Project, then select Visual C# on the left, then Windows and then select Windows Forms Application. Name your project "SplashScreenExample" and then click OK

Step 2: Design your form as below

frmSplashScreen

frmMain

You need to add a SplashScreenManager to your windows form application

Step 3: Add code to handle your form as below

frmMain

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using DevExpress.XtraEditors;
using System.Threading;

namespace SplashScreenExample
{
    public partial class frmMain : DevExpress.XtraEditors.XtraForm
    {
        public frmMain()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void frmMain_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            //Demo loading data...
            for(int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
            {
                Thread.Sleep(100);
            }
        }
    }
}

frmSplashScreen

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using DevExpress.XtraSplashScreen;

namespace SplashScreenExample
{
    public partial class frmSplashScreen : SplashScreen
    {
        public frmSplashScreen()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        #region Overrides

        public override void ProcessCommand(Enum cmd, object arg)
        {
            base.ProcessCommand(cmd, arg);
        }

        #endregion

        public enum SplashScreenCommand
        {
        }
    }
}

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