Fade splash screen in and out

Question

In a C# windows forms application. I have a splash screen with some multi-threaded processes happening in the background. What I would like to do is when I display the splas

Answer 1

When using Opacity property have to remember that its of type double, where 1.0 is complete opacity, and 0.0 is completely transparency.

   private void fadeTimer_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        this.Opacity -= 0.01;

        if (this.Opacity <= 0)
        {
            this.Close();
        }            
    }