SplashScreen

Splash screen sample

This sample shows how to imitate the splash screen that Windows displays for your app by positioning a similar image correctly when Windows dismisses the splash screen that it displays. This sample uses the SplashScreen class in the Windows.ApplicationModel.Activation namespace.

Note This sample was created using one of the universal app templates available in Visual Studio. It shows how its solution is structured so it can run on both Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1. For more info about how to build apps that target Windows and Windows Phone with Visual Studio, see Build apps that target Windows and Windows Phone 8.1 by using Visual Studio.

This sample demonstrates these tasks:

• Responding when the splash screen dismissed event fires
• Extending the splash screen

Important APIs in this sample include:

• JavaScript: onactivated event
• C#/C++/VB: Activated event
• SplashScreen class

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Note For Windows 10 app samples, go to Windows 10 Samples. The samples for Windows 10 can be built and run using Windows developer tools.

Related topics

Reference

For more info about the concepts and APIs demonstrated in this sample, see these topics:

• Windows 8 app samples
• Adding a splash screen (Windows Runtime apps using JavaScript and HTML)
• Adding a splash screen (Windows Runtime apps using C#/VB/C++ and XAML)

Related samples

• App activate and suspend using WinJS sample
• App activated, resume, and suspend using the WRL sample

Related technologies

• Windows.ApplicationModel.Activation.SplashScreen class

System requirements

Client: Windows 10

Server: Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview

Phone: Windows 10

Build the sample

1. If you download the samples ZIP, be sure to unzip the entire archive, not just the folder with the sample you want to build.
2. Start Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 and select File > Open > Project/Solution.
3. Starting in the folder where you unzipped the samples, go to the Samples subfolder, then the subfolder for this specific sample, then the subfolder for your preferred language (C++, C#, or JavaScript). Double-click the Visual Studio 2015 Solution (.sln) file.
4. Press Ctrl+Shift+B, or select Build > Build Solution.

Run the sample

The next steps depend on whether you just want to deploy the sample or you want to both deploy and run it.

Deploying the sample

• Select Build > Deploy Solution.

Deploying and running the sample

• To debug the sample and then run it, press F5 or select Debug > Start Debugging. To run the sample without debugging, press Ctrl+F5 or select Debug > Start Without Debugging.