WPF Disable Splash Screen Programmatically

Question

I have a WPF application that optionally accepts command line parameters. One of these parameters specifies "silent mode" (no UI). How can I disable the presentation of the splash screen at startup based on this parameter?

Answer 1

You should explicitly create an instance of the class SplashScreen, and show/hide based on your program arguments, instead of using the SplashScreen build action to generate a splash screen.

You need to set the Build Action of your splash screen image to Resource instead of SplashScreen.

For Example:

private void OnStartUp(Object sender, StartupEventArgs e)
{

    if (ShowSplashScreenArgument)
    {
        SplashScreen splashScreen = new SplashScreen("YourSplashScreen.bmp");
        splashScreen.Show();
    }

    // Do loading code here..

    MainWindow mainWindow = new MainWindow();

    if (ShowSplashScreenArgument)
    {
        // Close the splash..
        splashScreen.Close();
    }

    mainWindow.Show();
}