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Silverlight - Displaying a Custom Splash Screen

Posted By: Mike Taulty | Jul 15th, 2008 @ 11:22 AM | 11,089 Views | 1 Comment

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If your XAP is large, the download time might be long and you need something to show the user whilst it's happening - create a custom XAML based splash screen.

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These are really great, certainly clearing up a few areas for me..

By the way, when we want to test bandwidth limitations locally we use sloppy:

http://www.dallaway.com/sloppy/

Runs a local slow proxy to the url for you, kinda useful sometimes.

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