As you can see in the animation to the left, QuickSplash.NET is a Win32 executable - Start.exe - that you bundle with your .NET application.

Running Start.exe displays a customised splashscreen graphic, overlaying status updates and a progress bar, whilst loading your .NET application in the background.

Once your .NET application has fully loaded and initialised, a simple file deletion causes the Splashscreen to close.

Instant startup

QuickSplash.NET has a splashscreen displayed for your user instantly (<0.5 sec).  This gives the impression of your application being highly responsive, and allows you to load the .NET framework and do any other initialisation and loading whilst they are distracted.  Splashscreen solutions that use the .NET framework to load the splash image must first load the framework into memory - this can lead to a delay of up to 20 seconds before any user feedback is given.

Fully customisable

A configuration file controls all aspects of QuickSplash.NET, from which splashscreen image to load, to where the status label & progress bar (if required) should be loaded, to which .NET executable to load.

Dynamically update the status label from your application

The text displayed on the splashscreen status label can be dynamically updated by your .NET application whilst it is loading, simply by overwriting the contents of the data.lock file.

.NET 1.1 & .NET 2.0 compatible

QuickSplash.NET is compatible with both .NET 1.1 & .NET 2.0 Windows Forms applications, in both VB.NET and C#.  Full samples and documentation for QuickSplash in both of these environments are provided.

Help and support

QuickSplash ships with a full help manual, and sample applications showing how it can be used. Further support on is provided via the user forums on this site.