Improving on the Default Application Loading Screen
After improving the Silverlight installation experience, the next step is to improve the experience for your users while your Silverlight application is being downloaded from the server. You are no doubt familiar with the blue spinning balls animation that is displayed while your application is being downloaded, as shown in Figure 17-4, which provides a generic indicator that something is currently happening. If after half a second the application is still downloading, Silverlight will automatically display this default loading animation until the application has finished downloading.
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