Control Name Splash Splash Splash Splash Splash Splash lblApplicationTitle in C#.NET

Encoder QR Code ISO/IEC18004 in C#.NET Control Name Splash Splash Splash Splash Splash Splash lblApplicationTitle

Control Type Form Form Form Form Form Form Label Label Label Label Label Label Label Label Label Label Label Label

Property FormBorderStyle ShownInTaskbar StartPosition Size:Width Size:Height BackgroundImage BackgroundImageLayout Text BackColor Font ForeColor Text BackColor Font ForeColor Text BackColor Font ForeColor

Value None False CenterScreen 450 375 www.jpg Stretch Application Title Web:Transparent Microsoft Sans Serif, 20pt Web:White Version Web:Transparent Microsoft Sans Serif, 12pt Web:White Copyright Web:Transparent Microsoft Sans Serif, 8.25pt Web:White

Often, it s difficult to select a particular control. To see all controls in the currently displayed form, you can select the drop-down list at the top of the Properties window. Figure 6-2 shows the dropdown list for the Splash Screen form. To select any particular control, highlight it on the list and it will be automatically selected on the design surface.

lblApplicationTitle lblApplicationTitle lblApplicationTitle lblVersion lblVersion lblVersion lblCopyright

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When a procedure directive tells you to add a control and then name it XYZ, it means that you need to add the control onto the design surface, then go to the Properties window and change the (Name) property of the control to XYZ.

5 lblCopyright. Use the Properties window to set the properties specified in the previous table. 6 text in the image is for reference only; the application title, version, and copyright information are all

Look at Figure 6-3 to see where the three labels are located and place them there in the designer. The

obtained dynamically. This means the form will get the values from a variable or a setting somewhere in your project. In fact, at run time those three pieces of information are obtained when the splash screen is loaded by looking up application settings stored in the Project Designer Application pane. Now you ll have to hook up the splash screen to the application and to do this

browser form (not the splash screen form) and modify the constructor so that it looks like the following:

public partial class Browser : Form { Splash splashScreen = new Splash(); public Browser() { InitializeComponent(); splashScreen.Show(); Application.DoEvents(); }

event before the form is displayed is the Activated event. So you need to select the Browser form in Design View and then go in the Properties window. Then click on the Events button (yellow lightning) at the top of the Properties window and double-click the Activated event. The Browser_Activated event handler is displayed in Code View. Add the following code:

private void Browser_Activated(object sender, EventArgs e) { Thread.Sleep(3000); splashScreen.Close(); }

9 smart tag is there to let you know that the Thread class is in the System.Threading namespace and

that you don t have it in your using directives on top of the file. Move your mouse over the smart tag, click the down arrow and then select using System.Threading; to add it to your list of using directives. 84 Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition: Build a Program Now!

Place your cursor within the Thread text. You should see a familiar yellow and red smart tag. This

TO VIEW THE APPLICATION TITLE, VERSION, AND COPYRIGHT PR0PERTIES 1 Select MyOwnBrowser from the Solution Explorer, right-click, and choose Properties.

The Project Designer page opens. The Project Designer has a series of information tabs (as shown in Figure 6-4). You ll work mainly in the first tab for now, which is the Application pane. You'll configure several elements in this pane. All the elements you'll modify will affect how the application looks.

To change the application icon, select the Icon option, and then click the Ellipsis button (...). Find the

You re not changing the icon of the main form when doing this application icon change. In order to do this, you need to change the form icon s property by assigning a bitmap image. You re going to change the main form icon in the last section of this chapter.

the Images folder. (If you installed the companion content at the default location, then it should be at the following location on your hard drive: My Documents\Microsoft Press\VCS 2005 Express\.) You ve changed the icon of your application assembly or, in other words, you ve changed the icon of the executable binary (.exe) file itself. If you build the application and look on your hard drive where the application is compiled (as you learned in a previous chapter, all your projects are by default located at My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\MyOwnBrowser\MyOwnBrowser\bin\Debug or \bin\release), you ll find that your application, MyOwnBrowser.exe, has the globe icon that you ve just selected instead of a default icon.

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3 the one in Figure 6-5.