WPF Splash?

All:

It is possible to display a splash screen in WPF, wait for an
animation to finish, and then display the application's main window?

I've tried a variety of things, e.g., putting splash->animation->main
window sequence in the App() constructor, overriding OnStartup, trying
to use Thread.Sleep() --- all to no avail.

What I want is: splash->animation fades splash to transparent->main
window launches when animation finishes.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks,
John

Hi John, I'm trying to accomplish almost the same thing, and getting a
strange behaviour.
Please, have a look at the post here
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/Sho...38249&SiteID=1
there is some sample code to display a splash screen and show the main
window on splash closed.
In the example I use a simple RotationTransform as animation, but you
can define easily a fade-in/fade-out
animation and start/begin it from code-behind.
I have a splash that fades in, load some data and then closes showing
the main window, so the method in the post
can be applied to your scenario too... the only issue is with the
window closing before animation timeline has finished, but
you should not have this problem (and can read about it in the
previous cited post).