WPF XBAP Custom Splash Screen

Question

SplashScreen class (.NET Framework 4.5 Documentation) says:

The SplashScreen class cannot be used in XAML Browser Applications (XBAPs), because they use a different startup architecture.

So i guess there is a need to provide some manual plumbing to change standard XBAP loading screen, looking for any information about this process.

Answer 1

It is not possible to change the load page of XBAP applications as the page is shown by PresentationHost.exe.

Anyway following links provide suggestions and possible workarounds

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wpf/thread/d252c7ca-2ff9-4e09-9459-fb34fe8c1eb5/

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/wpf/thread/fffe2d9b-f512-40a4-84c3-756d690ea413/

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/wpf/thread/c2779c8a-a58a-4b3e-b2c4-d056c754c999/

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/wpf/thread/a58c20c8-cd2c-49b1-82ed-1e67df41436c

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/wpf/thread/8445a222-969d-400a-864f-79c92a19fb04