splash screen

[Dmitry Akselrod]

Hello everyone,

I have a .net configuration utility that works with my service. The
configuration utility takes some time to start on older workstations, while
the framework loads the necessary files.

Is there a way, to develop a splash screen that would start before the
framework loads? I can't just load another form as a splash screen, since
that would require the framework as well.

I know that c has unmanaged code, but I am not that familiar with c. my
other idea, was to develop a vb6 startup program and execute a shell call to
start the vb.net application. does anyone have a better idea? Is there an
API call?

Thanx everyone,

Dmitry

[Tom Shelton]

In article <vn************@corp.supernews.com>, Dmitry Akselrod wrote:

Hello everyone,

I have a .net configuration utility that works with my service. The
configuration utility takes some time to start on older workstations, while
the framework loads the necessary files.

Is there a way, to develop a splash screen that would start before the
framework loads? I can't just load another form as a splash screen, since
that would require the framework as well.

I know that c has unmanaged code, but I am not that familiar with c. my
other idea, was to develop a vb6 startup program and execute a shell call to
start the vb.net application. does anyone have a better idea? Is there an
API call?

Thanx everyone,

Dmitry

Well, you can host the .net runtime from a unmanaged application. You
probably could write an application in C++ or C (maybe VB6 - but I'm not
sure how easy that would be) that showed the splash screen and then
loaded the runtime into your process. The process is described in the
documentation:

ms-help://MS.NETFrameworkSDKv1.1/cpuindenf/html/cpconhostingcommonlanguageruntime.htm

I haven't tried it - just know it's possible :)

Tom Shelton