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

A detailed guide for a splashscreen is here: eExample splashscreen

Another example

Although the basics is:

1) Create a splashscreen, show it, close/dispose it

    private void SplashForm()
    {
    SplashForm newSplashForm = new SplashForm();
    newSplashForm.ShowDialog();
    newSplashForm.Dispose();
    }

2) Run the splashscreen on a seperate thread/backgroundworker

        Thread t1 = new Thread(new ThreadStart(SplashForm));
        t1.Start();
        Thread.Sleep(5000); // 5 seconds
        t1.Abort();
        Thread.Sleep(1000);