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Whenever you start with new project of Windows Phone 7, By default you will get on default splash screen as JPEG format titled as “SplashScreenImage”.This is a 10KB file,Default size of this Image is 480x800 and it is always recommended to keep the same even while you customize it.

With the new beta of the Windows Phone 7 tools out (and the delivery a cool new developer device to my office!) I’ve been updating my sample application and working through a few new features.  As I’ve done this I’ve found several things I’ve had to do some research on that I thought I would document to (hopefully) save you some time doing the same.  My next couple of posts will cover some of those topics starting with a quickie on splash screens.

Let me be clear about this, when I mention splash page I’m referring to a custom loading screen. This is a lightweight Silverlight application that runs while your main Silverlight application is downloading. Typically these will include things like progress bars, user tips, humorous statements or even news headlines.

In order to observe the loading experience and get a chance to test a simple animation, I included two sample video files in the project. Therefore the initial loading is incredibly slow. The animation has no complicated tricks; it only manipulates the opacity property and runs forever in autoreverse mode. Actually it runs until you are hypnotized by all the blinking!