Custom splash screen page for Windows Phone applications - Revision history

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Mehul raje - - Introduction

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Croozeus - Added summary

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Hamishwillee - Add SeeAlso link to other Splashscreen articles

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-[[Category:Windows Phone]][[Category:UI]][[Category:Silverlight]][[Category:Code Examples]]
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 {{Abstract|This article explains how to create a custom splash screen page for your Windows Phone application.}}
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	==Summary==		==Summary==
−	This article illustrated how you can develop a custom splash screen page for your Windows Phone application. There are other approaches to create a custom splash screen too, please refer to the see also section for related articles.	+	This article illustrated how you can develop a custom splash screen page for your Windows Phone application. There are other approaches to create a custom splash screen too, please refer to the see also section for related articles.[[Category:Windows Phone 7.5]]

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 == Introduction ==
-In most cases during the launch of an application, you need to do some background operations such as [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh221581.aspx making web request], parsing some data or something else and while doing this in background it is necessary to keep the user engaged by showing splash screen. This article helps you to create this splash screen.
+In most cases during the launch of an application, you need to do some background operations such as [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh221581.aspx making web request], parsing some data or something else and while doing this in background it is necessary to keep the user engaged by showing splash screen.<br />
+This article helps you to create splash screen from XAML page and display it as soon as your application launches, and show it until your background activity finishes.
 ==Necessary steps==
 # First create a Windows phone Project in visual studio.

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 [[Category:Windows Phone]][[Category:UI]][[Category:Silverlight]][[Category:Code Examples]]
-{{Abstract|This article explains how to create a custom splash screen for your Windows Phone application.}}
+{{Abstract|This article explains how to create a custom splash screen page for your Windows Phone application.}}
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 * [[Custom splash screen with progress bar for Windows Phone applications]]
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 == Sample Code==
 Sample project demonstrated in this article  is available for download here: [[Media:SplashDemoWinPhone.zip]]

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 {{Abstract|This article explains how to create a custom splash screen for your Windows Phone application.}}
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-* [[Improving the default Splash Screen on Windows Phone]]
+* [[Custom splash screen with progress bar for Windows Phone applications]]
 * [[Hiding the Application Bar during Splashscreen display and controlling its opacity]]
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	The last step is to add SplashPage.xaml in the Navigation Page tab of WMAppManifest.xml file. This is done so that the user is shown the splash screen when the application is launched.		The last step is to add SplashPage.xaml in the Navigation Page tab of WMAppManifest.xml file. This is done so that the user is shown the splash screen when the application is launched.
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		+	== Sample Code==
		+	Sample project demonstrated in this article is available for download here: [[Media:SplashDemoWinPhone.zip]]