Custom Splash Screens
If a Silverlight application is small, it downloads quickly and appears in the browser. If a Silverlight application is large, it may take a few seconds to download. As long as your application takes longer than 500 milliseconds to download, Silverlight shows an animated splash screen.
The built-in splash screen isn't too exciting—it displays a ring of blinking circles and the percentage of the application that's been downloaded so far (see Figure 6-3).
Figure 6-3. The built-in Silverlight splash screen
If you don't like the stock splash screen, you can easily create your own (see Figure 6-4). Essentially, a custom splash ...
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