How can i hide the main form until the splash screen is loaded?

using Visual C# Express

How can i hide the main form until the splash screen is loaded?
The main form won't display until the load event completes. What I do is instantiate my splash screen WinForm in the constructor or load event of the main form. As I load everything I update the progress on the splash screen and at the end close the splash screen.





I normally don't make the startup form the splash screen, because Application.Run which starts the message loop on the current thread and should be on the main dialog.
Reply:I would usually make the splash screen the first form to be loaded, then after a timer event finished it would load the main program's form and kill the splash screen.





Also you should be able to just set the main form's visibility to hidden.