I am working on windows 8.1 app and I found that it contains default splash screen which we can't remove. Is there a way we can remove it something similar to windows phone 8. I want a splash screen which loads until a particular process is completed (example zip extraction,editing resources etc). I also did some research and found that Extended Splash Screen will help but if I add a progress ring, people using the app will know the difference that there are two screens. Please anyone suggest what will be the best approach?
You need to go to the Package.manifest, through Visual Studio, and change the splash screen value. Here is a link to the Xaml version and the steps:
Open your app in Visual Studio 2013.
From Solution Explorer, open the "Package.appxmanifest".
Open the Visual Assets tab, select Splash Screen and you'll see the "Assets\SplashScreen.png" path in the Splash Screen field which you can change to whatever you want.
Then you can use the Extend Splash Screen functionality to continue the screen until your app is ready.
The splash screen is an image in the root folder of the project. you can edit it in any image editor.
While you cannot remove the splashscreen, one option is to use a screen shot of your main page as a splashscreen, this way giving the impression that the app starts quickly.
In your Visual Studio Solution, Right click "package.phone.appxmanifest" --> View Code and comment this line: <m3:SplashScreen Image="images\SplashScreenPhone.png" /> . And the default splashscreen in windows app will be removed. Note: Manifest file name might defer for phone and windows app.
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I have an ESRI Add-In for ArcGIS for Desktop (10.2.1) written in C# with ArcObjects SDK.
The Add-In includes a DockableWindow. When this DockableWindow is hidden, I would like to be able to flash the DockableWindow's tab inside of Arcmap.exe (NOT the icon for the whole app on the taskbar).
I have not yet found a solution that works. Does anyone have any ideas how to do this? Thanks.
I've already tried flashing via FlashWindowEx, which only succeeds in flashing the icon on the task tray. Passing in the hwnd for the tab inside of Arcmap does not work to flash the tab. In fact I tried EVERY child hwnd for the entire app with no success.
If I had the code for the tab, I would just make it change colors myself, but the tab is auto generated by arcmap.exe when my window is set to auto hide.
I want to create a splash screen in UWP. I want do more than just center an image in the screen. I thought it would be a lot more straight forward. I saw these articles:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/apps/hh868191(v=win.10)
https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Splash-Screen-in-Universal-42c0b57a
When I first opened up this sample, I thought that it worked... But, it doesn't actually do anything. It's actually just a furphy. If you look carefully at the screen, it actually just shows an image (defined in the manifest) for a second or two as the app is starting up, and then when the app is loaded, it switches to the extended screen with a progress ring. I've seen samples where people turn on the splash screen image, but that's not want I need to achieve. Part of the problem is that UWP app startup time is terrible even on fast machines. Even blank apps with nothing in them take several seconds to start up.
Is there a UWP sample floating around that actually a) cuts out the splash image from the manifest, and b) allows us to replace it with something else?
Note: I do not wish to remove the splash screen. I want to customize it.
The main splash screen (centered splash screen image defined in the package.appxmanifest) will always be displayed unless you make it optional - while even in this case it will be shown to the user when the app doesn't load immediately.
To make the splash screen optional, you have to open the manifest file as XML, add the following namespace declaration:
<Package
...
xmlns:uap5="http://schemas.microsoft.com/appx/manifest/uap/windows10/5">
And then add the uap5:optional attribute to your splash screen:
<uap:SplashScreen ... uap5:Optional="true" />
You can implement an extended splash screen, which is described in the articles you linked. If you postpone all initialization for the extended splash screen, it is quite likely that the optional default splash screen will not display at all.
However, although the samples only show the same image with progress ring, you can put any content you want on the extended splash screen, you are in full control of it because it is a normal Page.
When I run my wpf application in debug mode, the icon on the taskbar looks fine (left image), but after I published and open the application, the icon looks pixelated (right image).
I've referred to this link and I set the icon image to 256x256, but still looks pixelated.
Please help.
try using an ico editor to save the icon with all the correct resolutions (the OS will display the correct one). I use icofx, but there are many options if you google it - they should all correct your image proportions. Most should have an equivalent option to the 'save windows icon' (in icofx) where you select all the resolutions you want to add to the file.
Just another thought - is you icon a resource file? If so you may need to remove it then add it again and make sure the resource is set to publish correctly (so you are not using an old version).
Please suggest me a way to achieve Icon in taskbar when my windows forms application in published in server.I have tried by adding icon in Properties->Application->Resources ->Icon and Manifest but its not working for me.Please suggest me a way to achieve this.
Taskbar icon is not tied to your application; it is tied to your active form instead - so set properly icon on your form(s). The icon on application is for shell (i.e. when you open via explorer folder in which your app lies).
I have added the source code for wix theme and customized the default one with what i required.
<BootstrapperApplicationRef Id="WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.HyperlinkLicense">
<bal:WixStandardBootstrapperApplication LicenseUrl="" ThemeFile="HyperlinkTheme.xml" LocalizationFile="HyperlinkTheme.wxl" LogoFile="header3.jpg"/>
</BootstrapperApplicationRef>
Now when i click the installer, the installer main window opens with Install and Cancel button.I need to show a custom screen with product name and version and OK button before this screen loads.On clicking OK should close this custom screen and open the main installer screen.
I googled and found that if i am not using any default screen i can customize the screen.Since i am using default installer screen i don't know how to do this and how it works.Need some idea to do this in Burn/Bundle.wxs.
WixStandardBootstrapperApplication does not support this today. The logic behind navigating between pages is hard coded.