Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook

Adding a splash screen (and app tiles) to our app

So, we have an application and want to take full advantage of the Windows Store app style design, right? One of the easiest ways of accomplishing this is to provide a splash screen.

Getting ready

We should have an application ready, such as the previous recipe app. Any app will do. In fact, you can create an empty project and you will be ready to start this recipe.

How to do it...

Here we are going to take some steps to provide our app with a splash screen and app. tiles. There are some predefined places in our app that we can customize with default images.

1. We will put an image in our splash screen that consists of a background color and an image of 620 x 300 pixels. We already have a default image, ...