I hope I explain what I want to do correctly, forgive me if I don't. My app has a login form, and I would like the mainform to be loading in the background whilst the login form is present on the screen. Once a correct login is achieved, then the loading process to continue and display the main form.

My main form is shown immediately after the login form, except it starts to load there and it has a lot going on. I just kind of wondered if you did anything flashy like this in your medical app.

thanks

Geoff.

Thanks for this, indeed the process isn't too complex. What was giving me the headaches really was the fact that my splashscreen is also my login screen, so I needed the application to kind of pause until a valid login was provided. What I did was invoke my splash-login using the normal SF methods, then invoke a new version of the form using your example but one that was reduced in size, hiding the login details, but displaying label message so the updates could be seen.

This works really well thanks for the assistance.

regards

Geoff Hirst

I converted your splash screen example to VB.NET and got it working and added to my program.  However, I ran into a very strange bug.  If I use the splash screen when starting the application, the images in my list view boxes do not show up.  Obviously, if I don't use it, they show up fine.  Do you have any idea what is going on?

Thanks,

Jeff

I did some more testing and I found out couple of things that might be causing the strange behavior. It seems to occur only with a frameless form as with a splash screen when running the app in Debug mode in the IDE.  And the behavior seems to be somewhat sporadic when I play with the StartPosition property of the window.  It seems to run fine in the release version.  Please don't waste much time on this unless you know what is happenning.

Thanks,

Jeff

I find I have to convert everything manually (great for learning, bad for productivity) since the converters always get something wrong.

   TangibleSoftwareSolutions.com sells Instant C# and Instant VB, software to convert VB to C# and vice-versa. I've used it for years, even though I can write in both languages, and it does a remarkable job. VBConversions.net sells a slightly more expensive product, but Instant C# does a great job.

Les 

I also checked to see what Les uses to show code in both VB and C# on his website articles and noticed that he mentions Tangible Software Solutions on his website as well.  It must be good!

Thanks