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I ntroduction Continuing to my previous article title, here we will see about splash screens, how to set the splash screen image and how to change the background color.  Splash Screen Every Windows Store app must have splash screen. Splash screen consists of image and a background color. Whenever the user will launch application, splash screen will be the first to come up. Now you might be thinking, what is the purpose of splash screen??? We all know that, whenever any application is launched, lot many things happened at backend before our application is fully launched. So, splash screen provides a way to hide all those background details from the user. This splash screen is launched, when application is initialized and as soon as our application is ready for interaction, this splash screen goes off. Isn't it a nice thing ? Now question is can we customize this splash screen ? Then my answer will be Yes. You can customize image as well as background colo...

Today I was just doing net surf and came across one interesting question 'Can progress event of BackgroundWorker execute after completed event'. At first I thought no, but when I tried this with Console application, I was also able to reproduce this issue. Now question is, how come this scenario occurs in Console app and not in Windows form. Pretty interesting, right ? Now coming to Windows form, this issue will never occur, due to message queuing support. Windows message queue takes very good care of execution sequence of the events. This clearly mean that the progress event may run after the DoWork has completed, but the completion event will always happen afterwards. Another interesting thing here is the SynchronizationContext, which helps in maintaining all these sequencing. But when talking about Console application, none of the above holds true. There is no SynchronizationContext installed and the events just end up in getting run in threadpool thread, which doesn...