In your main form constructor, hide the main form.
Create your splash screen form instance and show it with Form.Show()
(not ShowDialog)
Continue with your initialisation code.
When your code is complete, close the splash screen with Form.Close()
and probably dispose it as well.
Show the main form again with this.Show()

You could also do it in the main static method. Show slash form,
initialise, show main form.

Thats the theory anyway!

Steven Nagy

Here's an example. The splash form is made transparent with a bee, so
when it loads, only the bee is visible. Then a timer, in frmSplash,
will close the form after 1375 ms. The bee will "fly" away to the upper
left corner and finally disappear.

However, is there a better way to animate the bee than my example?

The code in frmSplash:

private void timer1_Tick(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
        {
            this.Left = 400;
            this.Top = 300;
            this.Left = 375;
            this.Top = 275;
            this.Left = 350;
            this.Top = 225;
            this.Left = 300;
            this.Top = 200;
            this.Left = 250;
            this.Top = 150;
            this.Left = 200;
            this.Top = 100;
            this.Left = 100;
            this.Top = 75;
            this.Left = 50;
            this.Top = 10;
            this.Left = 0;
            this.Top = 0;
            Close();
        }

        private void frmSplash_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
        {
            timer1.Enabled = true;
        }

And in frmMain:

[STAThread]
        static void Main()
        {
            ///start splash-form for application
            Application.Run(new frmSplash());

            ///start main-form   
            Application.Run(new frmMain());
        }

Me.Name

Hi,

If you google you will find several examples of a splash screen , this
question is posted here on a regular basis