VB.NET splash screen

[Guest]

Hi all, I am writing an application in VB.NET with a bunch of dll in within.
Just wondering how to code a txt box in a splash screen that show the name of
the dll just loaded, also I wish that the main form is showed when all of
dll's are loaded.
I will appreciate any example.

Thanks

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Hi all, I am writing an application in VB.NET with a bunch of dll in
within.
Just wondering how to code a txt box in a splash screen that show the name
of
the dll just loaded, also I wish that the main form is showed when all of
dll's are loaded.

You cannot, except you are loading the DLLs yourself "dynamically" using
'Assembly.LoadFrom' or similar.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Herfried, I will try otherwise

You cannot, except you are loading the DLLs yourself "dynamically" using
'Assembly.LoadFrom' or similar.

 

[Blitz Krieg]

Yes, you can... to an extent. You can walk through the list of loaded
assemblies and display them by title with something nice, say a
progress-bar running beyond the title? Some type of simple animation
is always nice when listing items of some type for some length of time.

However, Herfried is right, in that you can NOT see everything (DLLs,
assemblies, etc., per se). Of course if you have a stub application
that spawns another process (that is the REAL application, the stub
process can capture the modules list at process 2 load, and forward it
on. Another example I have seen is that the splash screen is REALLY a
stub application that jumps to the real application... sounds kind of
weird but really does work well.