Creating an animated splash screen like office 2010

Question

How can I create an animated splash screen like the one in Office 2010 using C#?

Answer 1

I recommend using WPF for modern application design and your splashscreen problem.
Expression Blend is a nice tool for creating animations and xaml designs. But you can also design animations by writing plain xaml as well

Expression Blend Tutorials
Animation Using Expression Blend: How to create an animation
Animation Using Expression Blend: How to start animations on events

MSDN Info
Animation Overview

Using Winforms it will be much mor compicated. The entire GUI is rendered by the CPU (no GPU support) but u can create a custom usercontrol and overwrite the Paint event and use GDI for drawing, but this will be much more complicated then using wpf.